Don has been in recovery for alcoholism for 36 years. The pandemic created a new challenge: losing his in-person support community

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Sasha Mallett has an immunodeficiency that prevents vaccines from being effective. She’s watching as the world struggles with the health and safety questions she asks herself every day.

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The isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic was the opportunity Dana Coffman needed to come out as a transgender woman.

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Hospital beds across Oregon are near capacity as the Delta variant spurs a boom in severe COVID-19 cases. the ICU at OHSU in Portland is completely full

The death serves as a case study for another notable law enforcement problem the city is grappling with: powerful business interests turning to private security to do the work of police officers, enabling them to wield force against vulnerable Portlanders with a fraction of the oversight.

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The Olympics are getting underway this weekend in Japan, and several athletes with PNW ties have a shot at the gold

The Oregon Sex Workers Human Rights Commission held a public hearing Thursday to talk about why they believe decriminalization will protect sex workers from violence, decrease health risks and help to protect BIPOC and transgender communities.

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The social justice uprising of the last year has led to a lot of conversations about the ways marginalized groups are often excluded. That’s not always because of  conscious prejudice: but because built-in systems and cultures often limit the opportunities for women, BIPOC, LGBTQ individuals and others.

A new paper by an Oregon State University professor looks at how this kind of exclusion happens in the workplace- specifically, in the academic sciences. 

Henry Richmond died last month at the age 78.

Now, you might not know who that is. But if you live in Oregon, you know his work: he played a major role in defining how Oregon’s cities and natural areas look today.

After last week's devastating heatwave, leaders across Oregon are trying to make sense of what the region's dryer, hotter summers will mean for local communities.