Evening News

This week marks the one year anniversary of the raid of the Del Monte plant in North Portland. The raid, carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, was the largest workplace raid in Portland history. To raise awareness of the effects of the raid and raise mon... Read more

In Downtown Portland today, a group of Janitors and their supporters held a rally for a new, living wage contract. Nearly two thousand union Janitors who work in the portland metro area are fighting for affordable health care for their families... Read more

  The state of Oregon scored quite low, in a new survey of insurance regulators in every state.  The regulators answered fourteen questions about how individual health insurance policyholders are handled and protected. Today, since more peopl... Read more

Portland’s long-awaited day labor center is having its grand opening ceremony right now.  The Center will open for business on Monday, and will be open for all day laborers, regardless of their immigration status. Justin Shear represents Voz, the group which will administer ... Read more

Portland bike evangelist Reverend Phil was tasered by Portland police. According to eyewitnesses, at around 10 o'clock PM, a police officer pulled over bicyclist Diana at Southeast Seventh and Morrison to issue her a citation for not having a bike light. While the officer ... Read more

Cuba has authorized Sex-Change Operations for Transsexual citizens.  KBOO’s Jacob Anderson-Minshall has more on the story.    The Associated Press reported Monday that Cuba has official authorized gender-reassignment operations and will offer them free to qualifying citizens... Read more

With Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich introducing articles of impeachment against Bush last night, a coalition of anti-war groups are on their way to Washington to put impeachment Back on the table. KBOO's Rebecca Nay spoke with one of the organizers with Vets for Peace about... Read more

Activists with the United Poor People's campaign issued citations to spectators of this year's Starlight parade. The action was to raise awareness of the citations issued to homeless people in Portland on a daily basis. Lawrence Bishop with the United Poor People in Portla... Read more

 Supporters of “The Seriously Pissed-off Grannies” have cause to celebrate today. One year after locking themselves to a World War 2 tank in last year's Rose Festival Parade, Grannies Sara Graham... Read more

 Supporters of “The Seriously Pissed-off Grannies” have cause to celebrate today. One year after locking themselves to a World War 2 tank in last year's Rose Festival Parade, Grannies Sara Graham... Read more