In 1891, George Breckonridge was the first juvenile to be placed into custody at the reform school for boys in Woodburn, Ore. His crime was stealing a newspaper off his neighbor’s porch. Fast-forward ...

Ursula K. Le Guin started writing when she was five and has been publishing her work since the 1960s. Throughout her career, she has delved into some of the most insightful, political, ecological and ...

ICE agents in Portland told 22-year-old Jorge Luis Reinaldo he needed to sign papers. When he arrived, they detained him, despite previously scheduled legal proceedings.

One 2023 death reveals a complicated web of policy and procedures impacting the efficacy of the city’s emergency response systems ...

Lisa Kuettle drives Mosaic Medical's medical van to various sites around Central Oregon: 'You go to where they are' Lisa Kuettle never gets what she calls “caregiver fatigue” – the feeling a doctor or ...

Shelters, domestic violence, foster care among priorities commissioner emphasizes in city’s housing agenda Portland Mayor Charlie Hales shocked City Hall watchers when he announced his bureau ...

Spending’s up, and an audit of the city and county homeless service system follows the money The Portland metro region earmarked nearly $84 million last year on matters of housing and homelessness.

In September 2012 the snazzy new Blanchet House opened, leaving the original three-story brick building alongside looking forlorn. Over the 60 years that the Catholic Worker-inspired program operated ...

COMMENTARY | A new documentary tells the story of the Portland peace activist and Vietnam veteran “We have assumed the name of peacemakers,” wrote the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the beloved Jesuit prophet, ...

Former Marine and member of Portland’s Veterans for Peace chapter, Dan Shea knows the lasting effects of the Vietnam War all too well. In 1977 his first child was born with a number of birth defects ...

Tif von Batsy takes up space as a Black cosplayer, subverts cosplaying norms Standing in a blue striped leotard with large ethylene vinyl acetate foam wings protruding from her back and sharp pointy ...

A room with a view: One year on in housing By Leo Rhodes, Contributing Columnist Dec. 7, 1941, is a day that will live infamy, as President Roosevelt put it. Coming from Arizona, this day was and ...