JM Simpson’s day starts at 5 a.m. He typically picks up a bag of donuts and a few packs of cigarettes and grabs his camera. By 6:15, he’s on the streets of Olympia, Washington, introducing himself to ...

A stinging heat hung under the blue skies at the River City Bicycles parking lot in Southeast Portland. The clink of shifting bike gears and skidding wheels echoed through the parking lot as the women ...

A recent court case highlights how hundreds of low-income patients may face such medical debt, revealing a loophole in the law Six years ago, Oregon lawmakers expanded hospital charity care ...

At Community Warehouse, we see how close our neighbors are to losing their housing. We meet families sleeping on the floor after finally securing a roof overhead. We see how one job transition or ...

Students and faculty are fighting planned cuts to programs at Portland Community College. Appeals, petitions and protests are among the tactics to fight cuts the school says are necessary to balance a ...

The walls at Safety Net of Oregon, a nonprofit that once helped disabled people manage their federal benefits, are usually covered with collages and fake flowers. But now the plaster walls are bare ...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a free trade agreement among Pacific Rim nations, is possibly the biggest story you’ve never heard of. That’s partly by design. The United States and the eleven ...

Looking back on views and voices from our pages in the past year by Street Roots staff “We need a wider way to spread the conviction that moral ethics are really the basis of a happy life. This is ...

The former governor and activist speak with Street Roots about the lasting impact of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act Barbara and Frank Roberts were Oregon’s original power couple. By 1991, Barbara was ...

Photo gallery: The final year in the life of Sherrie Jeweline Navarro Heit I met Sherrie Jeweline Navarro Heit on an Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS) support group Facebook page. I noticed her ...

Portlanders are paying millions to resolve previous incidents of police violence at protests. Current events tee up a potential repeat. The city has paid over $9.1 million in legal fees and payouts ...