City of Portland employee Timur Ender’s family was caught in the clouds of gas Saturday night. Now he says the procurement of tear gas is a misuse of city funds.

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Before the 100th consecutive night of protests for racial justice began in Portland Saturday night, friends of the late Aaron “Jay” Danielson memorialized him and tried to strike a chord of defiance without encouraging violence.

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A person was shot and killed in downtown Portland Saturday night as a pro-Trump car caravan wound its way through city streets, clashing with counterprotesters along the way. It is uncertain whether the shooting is directly connected to the competing protests, but advocates on both sides quickly seized on the violence as a sign of a community out of control.

Violence erupted as right and left wing protestors clashed in downtown Portland yesterday. OPB's Sergio Olmos was there.

The initiative to decriminalize the possession of personal amounts of drugs and boost funding for drug treatment in Oregon is in a promising political position.

Some local groups worry Measure 110 will hurt efforts to raise the cost of alcohol to support more options.

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 Juan “Tony” Sancho was an actor performing with the Oregon Shakespeare Company when this incident happened at the Jackson County Jail in Medford, Oregon, in April. Last month, he filed a civil lawsuit against Jackson County, alleging excessive force.

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Oregon’s tallest waterfall is barely a 30-minute drive from downtown Portland, and it is frequently filled to capacity as thousands of hikers, amateur photographers and tourists flood the attraction in the summer months.

That posed a significant logistical challenge for the U.S. Forest Service when it recently reopened the attraction for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Schonberg isn’t a musician dabbling in science, or an entomologist with a weekend hobby band. Through her career she’s managed the unlikely pairing of the two, alternating between playing percussion on tour with her bands and doing fieldwork, investigating ecosystems that sustain insect life across the world. But in her most recent project, Secret Drum Band, she’s found a way to marry the two.

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One of Oregon’s premiere arts organizations is laying down the conductor’s baton for 2020: this week, the Oregon Symphony announced the cancellation of all in-person concerts and events through the end of the year because of COVID-19.