Local Voices

Cascade Aids Project is helping Portlanders in the fight against HIV. Oregon health officials urge a return to masking to reduce spread of respiratory infections that are overwhelming hospitals. Hacienda CDC and Verizon team up to create STEM education centers in Portland.

Good Feet Stores need your help by making donations of new socks, and new, or gently used, shoes for the needy. Multnomah County Board of Commissioners takes testimony and a first vote on a flavored tobacco and nicotine products ban. The City of Portland reviews disasters that could occur and what the city is doing to prepare for them.

This is the 40th anniversary of the Safeway Providence Festival of Trees. The Oregon Dog Rescue needs your support. The Sunshine Division is seeing its greatest need ever for food boxes. Multnomah County Health officials are warning parents to protect their young children from RSV.

This is a big weekend for Special Olympics Oregon as they host their Fall State Games. The Oregon Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation needs your support. New research shows the danger of natural gas and other combustible appliances in the home.

Planning is underway to restore Portland's iconic Elk Statue. A change of power in Congress could affect Social Security and Medicare. The Oregon Health Authority updates COVID-19, RSV and monkeypox outbreaks.

Oregon mayors have announced a plan to help manage the homeless crisis. Are you a visual thinker? New technology and investments are helping to keep limit wildfires in Oregon.

Meals on Wheels People needs your support and Jiffy Lube is helping to raise funds for the organization. Holla School is a new charter school that has a mission to change the academic narratives of Black, Brown and Indigenous students. Multnomah County expands work to reduce domestic violence.

Portland's Neighborhood Emergency Teams are ready for the next disaster. Oregon's election officials are fighting misinformation at levels they've never seen before. There are steps parents can take to protect their kids when they get their first phone.

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden blocks the nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia until changes are made between the two countries. OSAA makes changes to high school basketball. Disabled Oregonians are urged to prepare for disasters.

Oregon is in the process developing a wildfire risk map that will show which properties are at the highest risk of wildfires. The Oregon Health Authority has reached a milestone in implementation of Ballot Measure 110 to create addiction treatment services around the state.