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The clock started ticking Nov. 1. That’s the day the city of Portland planned to enforce its law banning people living outdoors from setting up encampments as part of Mayor Keith Wilson’s goal of ...

Editor’s note: Numerous pseudonyms were used in this story because sources feared reprisal from the Trump administration. A career U.S. Army National Guard officer suspects his fellow citizen-soldiers ...

Friends of Trees is set to ink a new partnership with the city of Portland. But the organization’s main source of funding — which comes from the federal government — is in limbo. Portland could soon ...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a free trade agreement among Pacific Rim nations, is possibly the biggest story you’ve never heard of. That’s partly by design. The United States and the eleven ...

It was Christina Hall’s first protest rally. And she was terrified. So are a lot of people who protest the rule of Donald Trump. They often decline to give their full name or any name at all, fearing ...

On a rainy cold morning in October, eight people scurried through the grass at Sellwood Riverfront Park. They ran from the Guss mobile sauna to plunge into the cold Willamette River, before warming up ...

The following is an excerpt from a speech by Nan Roman, president and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. The Alliance is a public education, advocacy, and capacity-building organization ...

Paul Boden is the executive director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project, or WRAP. The organization is made up of community organizations around the United States, including Street Roots and ...

What kind of a cold, mean, and even sadistic homeless service provider would you need to be to tell a family of three, four or five people living in a single room occupancy hotel or “illegally” ...

The Port of Portland wants to change the law so it can keep dumping dredge waste in West Hayden Island’s natural area off Oregon's Columbia River When the City of Portland pulled West Hayden Island ...