Portland’s weekend of ICE protests: Tear gas, National Guard restraining orders and false claims of a city burning to the ground, Portland

Portland poised to ban use of algorithmic rent-fixing software

The Portland City Council on Wednesday appeared ready to ban corporate landlords from using algorithmic rent-fixing software, ...

Portland's Fifth and Elm venue set to open tomorrow

Portland’s Fifth & Elm opens this weekend, bringing shops, dining and family entertainment as leaders say the project will ...

Portland Boxing Club to host 110th event on Nov. 8

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Why Portland protests are drawing frogs, sharks and unicorns

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! But this isn't the Land of Oz, it's a Portland protest. Full of colorful animal costumes, some protests in Portland, Oregon, against U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

Portland’s Dancing Protesters Are Showing Us How to Stand Up to Trump

The president wants us to be afraid. These activists are clowning him instead. A protester in a frog costume stands in front of a line of federal law enforcement officers outside a United States ...

Portland’s Crispy Gài eyes Providence for second restaurant location

“There’s just a place in my heart for Providence, and I think it’s a really exciting time for the city’s restaurants,” said chef Jordan Rubin PROVIDENCE — Portland’s Crispy Gài is spreading its wings.

Anxiety grows in Portland, Oregon, amid Trump's effort to send in National Guard

Portland, Oregon — Ongoing protests outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Portland, Oregon, have largely been contained to a single block in the downtown South ...

Fact Check: Did Portland Police Threaten To Arrest ICE Agents?

A video circulating online shows a tense encounter between Portland police and a vehicle near a protest outside an ICE facility, prompting claims about who was inside and what was said. The short ...

ICE pepper-sprayed a protester in a frog costume. Now the “Portland Frog” is a symbol of absurd resistance

President Donald Trump has continued his attempts to paint Portland as a crime-ridden “never-ending disaster,” due in part to the protests taking place at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...

Portland’s weekend of ICE protests: Tear gas, National Guard restraining orders and false claims of a city burning to the ground

An unprecedented weekend put Portland at the center of national headlines, as President Trump continued his push to deploy National Guard members into the city over the objections of city and state ...

With the Rothko Pavilion, the Portland Art Museum opens itself up to the city

The Rothko Pavilion will open to the public on Thursday, Nov. 20. A week and a half later, Ferriso will start his new job: ...

Suspect shoots himself after hours-long standoff in Southeast Portland

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A suspect shot himself Wednesday evening after an hours-long standoff with police in the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood of Southeast Portland. At about 7:30 p.m., a ...

Sellwood Library in Southeast Portland reopens Friday

The Sellwood-Moreland Library will reopen Nov. 14 with a series of bond-funded improvements. It's been closed since June.

Portland's most unusual library trades keychains instead of books

I'm bummed because I recently lost one of my favorite keychains that I bought this summer at the Abita Mystery House. To ...

Washington County voters brave the storm to cast their ballots in police, library levies

HILLSBORO, Ore. (KATU) — The pouring rain was not enough to stop voters from casting their ballots on election night Tuesday.

Libraries, public safety lead in early WashCo results

Two measures in Washington County are on the ballot Tuesday night to determine spending for libraries and public safety, ...

Treat Memorial Library expands homeschool hub, hosts Halloween tea

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Library News

Quilling has been around since at least the 15 th century, yet this technique of creating artwork from paper manages to remain fresh! The library has a drop-in quilling club that meets on the second ...

Appeals court clears Trump’s Portland troop deployment

A divided panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Monday lifted a lower court’s temporary block of President Donald Trump’s deployment of the Oregon National Guard in Portland. The ruling was ...

Woke Portland slapped with civil rights complaint over ‘race-first’ DEI policies: ‘Institutionalized modern discrimination’

Ultra-woke Portland could face a federal investigation over its use of alleged “race-first” policies across the Oregon city — despite claiming to have rolled back its diversity, equity and inclusion ...

Trump Can Send Troops To Portland, Appeals Court Rules

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that President Donald Trump can send troops to Portland, Oregon, while litigation over their deployment moves forward, overturning a lower court that blocked Trump ...