The pride flag is flying outside the Pierce County council building for the first time.

Charles Coe is a co-chair of the county’s L-G-B-T-Q plus employee resource group. They helped raise the flag at a community celebration this week.

Host lead-in: For the first time ever, Pierce County is flying a rainbow flag outside the county building in downtown Tacoma to mark pride month. This comes a year after a controversy within the county council over the flag. N-W-P-B’s Lauren Gallup reports.

A federal court has temporarily blocked the closing of Job Corps centers across the nation just days after the Trump administration announced it was shutting down the job training program. The restraining order buys extra time for staff and students at a center on the Oregon Coast who faced the possibility of losing their on-campus housing as early as this week.

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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek wants more than $217 million to establish a statewide homeless shelter program. But it’s not clear that the state will have enough money to make that happen. OPB’s Bryce Dole reports.

Governor Tina Kotek’s major task force for downtown Portland wants to overhaul empty offices and create more housing by 2030. Acting as spokesperson for the group, Portland Mayor Keith Wilson laid out the updated goals today/yesterday [[WED]].

Governor Tina Kotek’s downtown Portland task force wants the central city to break ground on 25-hundred new homes by 2030. That was among the updated goals published today/yesterday [[Wed]], as Kyra [[KYE ruh]] Buckley reports.

A rainbow flag went up today [WEDS] at the Capitol campus in Olympia … marking the start of Pride month.

Oregon is one step closer to granting unemployment pay to workers who go out on strike. Dirk VanderHart reports.

Embattled Deschutes County Sheriff Kent van der Kamp says he plans to step down just eight months into his first term in office. Emily Cureton Cook reached him by phone this week.

The Oregon Department of Energy is seeking contractors to install heat pumps through a new state program.