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 ...

Justice reinvestment programs help keep people out of prison, so why are legislators starving the funds? Carole Hinojosa didn’t expect a second chance. She grew up in a drug house in deep Southeast ...