It's been more than five months of continual protests in Portland. They started as a cry for racial justice, but with the 2020 election just a few days away, some of those protests have become flash points for opposing political views

We’re days away from a Presidential election that’s become a breeding ground for distrust and uncertainty.  There’s no credible report of widespread voter fraud anywhere in the country, but even once the votes are counted, there’s a lot that needs to happen before the next president is sworn into office.  A lot of the uncertainty comes down to the electoral college — and the individual electors who will be doing our voting for us.

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Ballots are flying into the election headquarters in Multnomah County. We'll hear from the county's Director of Elections on how the count will work: it takes a lot of big machines. 

What the latest COVID-19 restrictions mean for you

Movie theaters are still closed in Multnomah County, so it’s usually only Williams and a few close friends and colleagues in attendance each week. They maintain social distancing and wear masks. He say’s it’s much like a normal screening — without the audience.

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More than 40 states have sent their most vulnerable kids to facilities run by a for-profit company named Sequel. Many of them were abused.

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Oregon became a state in 1859. But nine years earlier, on Sept. 27, 1850, the Donation Land Claim Act became law. That makes this week the act’s 170th anniversary.

The impact was staggering: In 1849, there were only 9,000 European Americans in present-day Oregon; by 1860, there were 50,000.

But crucially, the act also led to the displacement of the people who’d been living on this land for thousands of years.

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The indie film “Phoenix, Oregon” is the story of two friends who quit their service industry jobs to restore an old bowling center and serve the world’s greatest pizza.

But today, Phoenix is just beginning to recover from the devastating Almeda fire. The wildfire tore through southern Oregon earlier this month, burning over 2,600 homes.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, died Friday of complications from cancer, and was immediately mourned and remembered for her legal wisdom, her judicial legacy and her profound impact on civil rights and women’s rights in her 27 years on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Leaders in Oregon were among those sending remembrances.

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Thousands of people across Oregon have been forced to evacuate this week as wildfires burned across hundreds of thousands of acres of land. Often there was little time between the Level 1, or “Get Ready,” notification, and Level 3, or “Go Now.”
The fires are a reminder: We all need to prepare for earthquakes, wildfires or other emergencies.

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