I know you aren’t going to read this whole issue. I have, while I cleaned and laid out data over the last two months, but I know it’s hard to take in like this. It’s overwhelming: 12 full pages of ...

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 ...

For many housed people, there is a tendency to conflate unhoused populations with violent crime and danger, but crime rates tell a different story. Editor's note: This story contains graphic ...

Anti-homeless policy has been a staple of cities the world over, whether those policies be forthright, like loitering laws and sit-lie ordinances, or peppered into a city’s infrastructure and public ...

The Housing First pioneer explains why the policy of housing a person before attempting to fix their underlying issues works best In the late 1980s and early ’90s, on both ends of the country, the ...

From redlining to the Reagan administration to the present-day crisis, the government has spent decades shifting the burden to the private sector Housing is political, and public housing is political ...

On the streets of downtown Portland on June 18, masked federal agents pulled over and arrested a Colombian man who had just left immigration court. The incident, caught on video and first reported by ...

Continuing efforts to rename lakes, creeks, mountains and other geographical places with offensive and racist names are happening in Oregon, often with help from tribes and Native historians From ...

In a global culture characterized by massive and ever-increasing social inequality, polarized politics and rapid ecological decline, we have more well-meaning people working toward remedying these ...

FINDING FRINGE | A mother’s love reaches into the bowels of the Oregon penal system to keep her son afloat I catch her in the early evening. Two black bears cross the road just before turning onto her ...

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. As the city of Portland clawed its way out of the pandemic, it faced a new set of crises: The city’s homeless population was growing ...

Sex has always sold well, and it’s been business as usual in Portland's Old Town for at least 150 years SEX WORKERS have been making money in Portland’s Old Town for as long as the neighborhood has ...