Evening News

Normal 0 More than five hundred summer meal sites across Oregon serve neighborhoods where at least half the families have incomes below the federal poverty level and this summer, with a record number of Oregonians receiving public assistance, they expect to be busy. Summ... Read more

Normal 0 The story of the ‘big bad wolf’ is being re-thought in Oregon and several other states, where new research has shown that wolves and other predators are essential to a healthy ecosystem. The comeback of the wolf population was hotly debated at a federal court ... Read more

Normal 0 In the last few weeks, Arizona has been making most of the immigration-related headlines, but a protest yesterday in downtown Portland brought concerns over Oregon’s treatment of immigrants into the public spotlight. KBOO’s Evan Tenenbaum reports….    Read more

Normal 0   The Portland City Council passed an ordinance this morning challenging the Arizona immigration law SB 1070, which allows for the racial profiling of immigrants. Although the Portland ordinance is not as strongly worded as similar rules passed in Seattle ... Read more

Normal 0 The Service Employees International Union held a rally in Portland today to commemorate twenty years of the Justice for Janitors campaign. KBOO’s Isobel Charlay was there, and brings us a sampling of today’s rally, in which union members challenge the recent de... Read more

There was an action event held on Thursday, June 10th to stop the annual slaughtering on dolphins.  There were petitions to be signed which will be sent to the government in Japan, the United States government, and the International Whaling Commission.  With the legislation... Read more

There is a new statewide Bias Crime Reporting System in place and a press conference was held today at the Q Center in north Portland discussing it... KBOO's James Dixon brings us the report... Read more

There is an action event being held on Thursday, June 10th at the Someday Lounge in dowtown Portland in response to the annual slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan.  KBOO's James Dixon brings us the story... Read more

There was a press conference held at the Q Center at 4115 N. Mississippi Avenue on Weednesday, June 9th in response to several gay bashings that occurred over the Memorial Day weekend.  Here is the audio from the press conference... We apologize in advance for the rough aud... Read more

Over the Memorial Day weekend there have been a number of gay bashings affecting Portland's queer community and on June 2nd there was a discussion forum held at the Q Center to discuss the issue... Here's the audio from the news report... Read more