This lack of a release valve has fiscal consequences. As WW reported last year, state officials say Oregon’s prison population is aging at an “alarming rate,” leading to skyrocketing medical costs at ...

The national average for an emergency room stay at “high volume” hospitals is around three and a half hours. Stay times at ...

ADDRESS: 2706 NE 58th Ave. Tucked between an Ethiopian coffee shop, a Thai restaurant and the Rose City Park Methodist Church ...

Portland’s program works like this: Candidates who receive 250 or more donations qualify for public funds, multiplying each ...

The debate over whether to increase the Preschool for All tax, and by how much, rages on. At a Nov. 12 advisory committee ...

Seattle’s model for public campaign financing, its proponents argue, places stronger safeguards around taxpayer dollars. That ...

On Nov. 6, the day after a national election that sent Donald Trump back to the White House, Elijah Graham and Owen King, who ...

If you wander into a Plaid Pantry in Portland’s central city, there’s a decent chance you’ll see huge bags of empty cans and ...

As a young bibliophile living in a small town in Southwest Washington, I would daydream about browsing in my ideal bookshop, ...

Gov. Tina Kotek today said she’s calling the Legislature into a special session Dec. 12 to deal with a stack of unpaid bills ...

Portland Holiday Brew Fest at Pioneer Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. pdxholidaybrewfest.com/. 5:30-9 pm Friday Dec. 6, Noon-9 pm ...