Portland mayor promises action on Central Eastside safety concerns

Every other year, local authorities travel through their jurisdictions counting people living under bridges, on the sidewalk or in public parks among other places. It’s called the point-in-time count. Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas county officials have worked together for years to try to increase the accuracy of the count....

Officials from four Oregon transit agencies appealed to state lawmakers this week for help in making sure their riders and employees are safe. It comes after a passenger killed another passenger on a bus in Eugene and after a brutal attack on a light rail platform in Gresham. The violent...

This is the second story in a series about the state of special education in Oregon, including how students and educators are faring after years of pandemic disruptions. You can read the first story here. Even before the pandemic, Jennifer Brooks had submitted six complaints to the Lake Oswego School...

OPB’s “Superabundant” explores the stories behind the foods of the Pacific Northwest with videos, articles and this weekly newsletter. To keep you sated between episodes, we’ve brought on food writer Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland-based culinary historian and ecologist, to highlight different aspects of the region’s food ecosystem. This week, to celebrate Lunar New Year, she offers a brief history of Chinese food in Portland.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Leaders from across Oregon are responding to Gov. Tina Kotek’s initial efforts to respond to the state’s homelessness challenges. “I just would not underscore how big of an issue this is facing my community,” Beaverton Mayor Lacey Beaty said Tuesday...

Portland is considering changes that would increase the required amount of electric vehicle charging infrastructure for new residential and multi-dwelling buildings. Portland City Council heard public testimony on Wednesday on a proposal that would require newly built multi-dwelling housing, with five or more units that provide on-site parking, to install the necessary electrical wiring for EV charging infrastructure. It would require parking lots with more than six spaces to make 50% of those parking spaces (or at least six, whichever is greater) EV ready for level 2 charging, which requires a 240-volt outlet that triples the amount of charge an EV can get per hour. For smaller parking lots that provide six or fewer spaces, the proposal would require all spaces to be EV-ready.

The pandemic accelerated the rollout and adoption of technologies like Zoom as a way for clinicians to conduct virtual visits with patients. But well before telemedicine took off, one Portland clinic and research lab has been conducting its visits exclusively virtually since 2017 as a way to reach more patients throughout Oregon with services that could be hard to come by, especially in rural areas.

Your browser does not support the audio element. One afternoon in late July, deputies at the Clark County Jail received an email that landed like an apple with a worm. Nearby departments offered better pay, incentives and signing bonuses, the email read. To help his shorthanded staff, the sheriff was going to add bodies by offering more money to new hires.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Reporter’s notebook: I grew up celebrating Tết with my family. The start of the Lunar New Year is one of the most important holidays in Vietnamese communities. I reached out to other Vietnamese Americans to reflect on what the holiday means to them.

A Portland facility that first entered the train-making business in 1919 on rails next to the Willamette River is poised to shut down in a few months. These days, the 78-acre site also builds barges. The Lake Oswego-based Greenbrier companies, which acquired the Gunderson facility in 1985, told Oregon officials...

Who is an American? And what does it mean to be one? Those are questions that Cristi Miles, co-founder of the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, thought about when she first heard a podcast about an iconic series of photographs published in the late 1950s by Robert Frank. The collection is called “The Americans,” and little did she know that a few years later she would be exploring those themes and reimagining the photographs on stage using music and dance. The production, now playing at the historic Alberta House, takes its name from Frank’s collection. Miles co-directed the show and joins us to talk about how the ensemble went about exploring American identity in a performance that’s as much a poem as a play.

Portland-based Vacasa laid off about 1,300 workers on Tuesday or roughly 17% of its workforce. The cuts include the elimination of 240 jobs in Portland. The vacation rental management company went public in 2021, but its stock has slumped. Vacasa is trying to shrink its expenses as it seeks to become profitable.

The Portland Thorns have fired assistant coach Sophie Clough and athletic trainer Pierre Soubrier following an investigation into misconduct from the two staff members. Both are additionally suspended from the National Women’s Soccer League for the rest of the season, according to a team announcement Tuesday. The firings are...