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Details: Written by SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America; Published: 12 March 2021

J.W. Matt Hennessee, M.Div; D.D., Chair, IPAC

The move by Portland's mayor represents an about-face after city leaders in June voted to cut nearly $16 million from the police budget

Details: Written by GENE JOHNSON Associated Press; Published: 11 March 2021

Seattle Democratic Sen. Jamie Pedersen speaks on the Senate floor on February 25, 2021

The bills include measures limiting the use of tactics like neck restraints and creating an independent office to investigate police use of deadly force.

Details: Written by Kym Pokorny, OSU; Published: 10 March 2021

The public is asked to report sightings of the Asian giant hornet in Oregon. (Photo/OSU)

Stinging by the Asian giant hornet is rare and rarely leads to death. Scientists' immediate concern is the hornet's threat to honeybees

Details: Written by Saundra Sorenson; Published: 09 March 2021

Jo Ann Hardesty sits at the head table at The Skanner Foundation MLK Breakfast 2019 (Photo/The Skanner Archives)

Hardesty, Mayor Wheeler opt for external inquiry while Portland Police Bureau investigates internally.

Details: Written by TERRY TANG and MANUEL VALDES Associated Press; Published: 09 March 2021

Pete Graham, right, receives the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from a volunteer worker, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, at a mass vaccination clinic at Seattle University in Seattle.

As states ramp up vaccination distribution in the fight against the coronavirus, volunteers are needed to do everything from direct traffic to check people in

Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 09 March 2021

(photo/National Railroad Passenger Corporation)

During the pandemic, the Empire Builder route was reduced to operating three days a week between Chicago and Seattle and Portland, Oregon

Details: Written by RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press; Published: 05 March 2021

The case of Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri who was pepper sprayed and arrested while reporting on a clash between protesters and police, highlights the First Amendment and the right to a free press

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 05 March 2021

Jasmine of Portland wears a mask to save lives. (Image/Oregon.gov)

Counties that have moved out of the COVID-19 extreme risk level will not be moved back into it without giving them two weeks to improve their case numbers

Details: Written by Saundra Sorenson; Published: 04 March 2021

(l to r) Imani Muhammad and Paula Byrd of Books Not Bars OR and Y.O.U.th will speak about barriers in Black literacy during the March to Literacy virtual event March 13. (Photo/Andie Petkus)

The virtual event aims to empower parents, educators of students who struggle with reading

Details: Written by GILLIAN FLACCUS, HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press; Published: 04 March 2021

Sara Plush, an employee of the grocery chain Fred Meyer, adds a sheet with information about how to get a COVID-19 vaccine to groceries ordered by a homebound senior citizen in Portland, Ore., through the nonprofit group Store to Door on Feb. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

An untold number of older adults are getting left behind, unseen, because they are too overwhelmed, too frail or too poor to fend for themselves.