Statement from OPB Senior Vice President and Chief Content Officer Morgan Holm

Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14. 

Kotek is the longest-serving House Speaker in Oregon history and will be Oregon’s first openly lesbian governor. She has promised a more proactive, but still compassionate, approach to homelessness...

Alan Swinney is a member of the Proud Boys – a group that frequently engages in violence at protests – and was again armed with a handgun at a Gresham demonstration Wednesday.

The footage obtained by OPB Friday morning shows clearly what House Speaker Tina Kotek and others have described in recent days: Nearman appearing to — blatantly, purposefully — allow an incursion...

The U.S. Senate unanimously approved the nomination of Chuck Sams as National Park Service director.

Wall Street investment funds took control of Oregon’s private forests. Now, wealthy timber corporations reap the benefits of tax cuts that have cost rural counties billions.

The farmland purchase reclaims an ancestral village site known as “the place of boulders,” or Am’sáaxpa, in the Eastern Oregon town of Joseph more than a century after the Nez Perce Tribe was pushed...

Internal emails show a tax-funded agency created to educate people about forestry has acted as a public-relations agency and lobbying arm for Oregon's timber industry, in some cases skirting legal...

Oregon Democratic U.S. Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici, along with about a dozen other lawmakers, demanded the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, resign...

U.S. District Judge Michael Simon has agreed to allow attorneys for the Oregon ACLU to add the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Marshals Service as defendants in its lawsuit alleging...

A letter dated Aug. 3, 2020, states the fence surrounding the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in downtown Portland, Oregon, was erected without proper permits and that fines will continue daily...

OPB talked to two of the people behind Riot Ribs, which has been grilling free food for protesters and people experiencing homelessness in downtown Portland for several weeks.

A strike is underway affecting a number of Oregon supermarkets, barely a week before Christmas Day.

A bill introduced in the Oregon Legislature would require Oregon to insist that the envisioned Portland-to-Seattle-to-Vancouver, B.C. bullet train include service all the way to Eugene.

The Northwest Interagency Coordination Center said Wednesday morning that fires in Oregon and Washington burned 515,135 acres in the span of 24 hours.

A week after wildfires began consuming thousands of acres in western Oregon, smoky skies are starting to clear and firefighters are making progress on some of the most destructive blazes in state...

Senate Bill 1510 also provides grant money for social services and alters restrictions for people on probation or parole.

Portland City Council will consider an emergency resolution next week to ban future travel, goods and services from the state of Texas until the most restrictive abortion laws in the U.S. are...

Portland police quickly obtained key evidence in the 2019 killing of anti-fascist Sean Kealiher, but waited more than two years to arrest the suspect, according to investigative file documents...

It was the first time ever that Oregon had the highest voter turnout for a national election.

Nearman refused to resign in the face of overwhelming evidence he would be ejected from the Legislature. The four-term Republican lawmaker becomes the first person ever expelled from the Oregon House.

A student group plans to present the district with a petition and list of demands, including removing all student resource officers from the district. The group also advocates increasing the number...

On Friday, the Democratic governors of Oregon, California and Washington announced a coordinated effort to strengthen legal protections for abortion providers and patients who travel to the West...

If passed, the proposal would make Oregon just the third state in the nation allowing people to vote while incarcerated for felonies.

The city attorney’s office advised city staff on Tuesday that the order requiring Portland’s police force to be vaccinated was now legally dubious due to new guidance from the Oregon Health Authority.

Members of Oregon's Congressional delegation were among those evacuated from the U.S. Capitol building Wednesday as supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the building during Congress' certif...

An internal Department of Homeland Security report assessing the agency’s intelligence collection on Portland racial justice protesters in 2020 has been released nearly in its entirety. A heavily...

The Nike co-founder has given to legislative races in the past, but never to this degree.

Portland students walked out of school on Wednesday to protest gun violence.

A Starbucks store in Eugene has become the first in the state to unionize after a unanimous vote on Wednesday.

The farmland purchase reclaims an ancestral village site known as “the place of boulders,” or Am’sáaxpa, in the Eastern Oregon town of Joseph more than a century after the Nez Perce Tribe was pushed...

People want to help out with the wildfires. Here's how.

The state could also pursue criminal charges against an agent who seriously injured a protester.

The board that oversees the Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facility in The Dalles unanimously agreed on Thursday to initiate steps to end its contract with Immigration Customs and Enforcement.

Political observers say they've never seen anything like the gloom Portland voters are showing about the shape of their city. That could be very bad news for incumbents.

The city of Portland will place new barriers between the Portland police and federal law enforcement, barring the local police from communicating with the federal officers who have been deployed to...

Isaac McLennan, the president of the Portland Fire Fighters’ Association, said the union’s 14-person executive board voted Monday to endorse challenger Rene Gonzalez over Commissioner Jo Ann Hardes...

Plaintiffs describe being taken in unmarked vans, being deliberately shot at with rubber grenades and being wantonly hit on the head, among other complaints.

Starting Jan. 1, the CROWN Act will make it illegal in Oregon to discriminate against Black people for their hairstyles.

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Oregon tribal leader Chuck Sams to be the first Native American director of the National Park Service.

The Nike co-founder has given to legislative races in the past, but never to this degree.

Oregon was the only state in the U.S. that had racist ideologies written into its constitution at its founding. But now these racist foundations, which Oregon and the nation were built on, are...

U.S. District Judge Michael Simon has agreed to allow attorneys for the Oregon ACLU to add the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Marshals Service as defendants in its lawsuit alleging...

Two stories of the Black Lives Matter movement are unfolding side by side in Portland. Underlying both is a push to fight racism and hold police accountable for violence. They are bringing change to...

Tusitala "Tiny" Toese was arrested and is currently in the Clark County, Washington jail.

In the Oregon race for governor, the Democrat, Tina Kotek, and the Republican, Christine Drazan, are in a dead heat thanks to the unaffiliated candidate, Betsy Johnson, who has outraised her compet...

Advocates say Oregon has taken "a sledgehammer to the cornerstone of the war on drugs." Oregon is the first state to do away with criminal charges and jail time for personal drug possession.

Walter W. Cole Sr., a pioneer in Oregon's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community who performed as a female impersonator under the name Darcelle for decades, has died at age 92.

The shooting is a grim marker on the ever-growing and ever-complexifying timeline of Portland protests over the past several months.

Oregon State Police announced Monday that Jeremy Roberts, 40, was booked at the Marion County Jail on Sunday afternoon for charges of criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, assault, harassment and a...

A similar bill failed to pass the chamber in 2019.

The nonprofit is leasing a medical office in Ontario, Ore., as the legal right to an abortion is contested in nearby Idaho.

Mount St. Helens is a restless and occasionally violent volcano that looms within Portland's view. It's also a beacon to scientists, adventurers and OPB video production crews.

During a hearing Wednesday in Washington D.C., Adrienne Nelson, an associate justice on the Oregon Supreme Court, told senators she brings an open mind, impartiality to each case. "I try to communi...

Kachka, an Eastern European restaurant in Southeast Portland, has moved away from tipping and instead has instituted several initiatives for its employees, including a new approach to wages.

A judge has restored federal protections for gray wolves across much of the U.S. after they were removed in the waning days of the Trump administration.

More than a year after violently clashing with Portland anti-fascists in the summer of 2021, a judge found Proud Boy Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, 25, guilty on 10 counts in Multnomah County Circuit Court...

After more than 100 days of demonstrations for racial justice, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has banned the city’s police force from using CS tear gas to disperse protesters.

Lawmakers, who referred the measure to the voters, disagree on its cost and implications.

Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Martha Walters announced Tuesday she is stepping down at the end of the year. That gives Gov. Kate Brown a second seat to on the state's high court to fill before...

Gov. Tina Kotek criticized city of Portland and Multnomah County officials on Monday for not answering basic questions when it comes to how they would spend state dollars to address the homeless...

Damian Lillard scored 61 points and made nine 3-pointers, willing Portland to a 134-131 victory over the Dallas Mavericks that moved the Trail Blazers into eighth place in the Western Conference

On Earth Day, New Seasons Market will stop selling single use water bottles made from plastic, fiber, aluminum and glass from all its stores.