Voters passed a jail inspection measure in 2022. The new policy allows a member of the public to accompany a city commissioner on the twice-annual visits. Oregon state law requires county commissioners to inspect local jails once per year to provide publi ...
23 Aug 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
Adjuncts ‘overwhelmingly’ say they will participate in some form of collective action Portland State University adjunct faculty say they are prepared to take action, including potentially going on strike, if the administration doesn’t meet their bargainin ...
23 Aug 2023 - Aurora Biggers
Zenith Energy’s fossil fuel storage and transport facility faces criticism for potential environmental dangers, particularly in the event of an earthquake. Portland City Council and a fossil fuel transportation and storage company with a history of violat ...
23 Aug 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
Multnomah County had only released the cause of two jail deaths prior to the order amid surge of six deaths in three months Editor’s note: This story discusses self-harm. If you or people you know are at risk of self-harm, the National Suicide Prevention ...
18 Aug 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden and K. Rambo
The bills would remove longstanding legal barriers that severely limited The Confederated Tribe of Siletz Indians and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde tribal members’ ability to hunt, gather, fish and trap in their ancestral homelands The ability to ...
16 Aug 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
Local shows aim to create cost-inclusive spaces and embrace queer youth of all backgrounds to build community “The music industry is dead, and this is what’s real,” Dylan Widick, lead singer and bassist for local pop-punk band Edd Party, said. He was refe ...
9 Aug 2023 - Miles Silvey
The program ended in August 2022, but tenants are still in the throes of a rental emergency The pandemic-era Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program, or OERAP, prevented nearly 70,000 renters from being evicted, according to the state, yet tenants, law ...
9 Aug 2023 - Aurora Biggers
Twice the number of prisoners in county jails have died in the last three months than in all of 2021 and 2022 A 36-year-old prisoner in Portland’s downtown Multnomah County Detention Center, or MCDC, died Aug. 1, according to the Multnomah County Sherif ...
3 Aug 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
The school mismanaged funds, made inappropriate purchases, report finds Chemawa Indian School, Oregon’s only off-reservation boarding school, mismanaged hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal and donated funds, a federal audit released July 17 found. ...
2 Aug 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
Transportation activists say the crisis should be treated as a public health emergency An 11-year-old boy. A county librarian and mother of two. A 26-year-old living in an RV with his dad. The July Portland Bureau of Transportation, or PBOT, budget adviso ...
2 Aug 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden