Dancer with chronic spinal condition refused to give up her dream You may recognize her from her silhouette that danced across a dim stage in the Intel Superbowl commercial “Experience Amazing” that ...

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In the early 2000s, playwright August Wilson told his friend, actor and director Jerry Foster, about “Jitney,” a play Wilson had written more than two decades earlier. It follows the owner of an ...

New, innovative project offers lifeline to youths after foster care Ascending Flow uses music and mentorship to support youth aging out of Oregon’s foster care system Outside a building bathed in ...

Mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith talks to Street Roots Mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith talks to Street Roots By Jake Thomas, Staff Writer Jefferson Smith hopes to make history next year by becoming ...

The switch to working and shopping from home, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, dramatically changed downtown Portland. It’s high tech, not high taxes, emptying downtown office buildings. Killing ...

JM Simpson’s day starts at 5 a.m. He typically picks up a bag of donuts and a few packs of cigarettes and grabs his camera. By 6:15, he’s on the streets of Olympia, Washington, introducing himself to ...

A stinging heat hung under the blue skies at the River City Bicycles parking lot in Southeast Portland. The clink of shifting bike gears and skidding wheels echoed through the parking lot as the women ...

A recent court case highlights how hundreds of low-income patients may face such medical debt, revealing a loophole in the law Six years ago, Oregon lawmakers expanded hospital charity care ...

At Community Warehouse, we see how close our neighbors are to losing their housing. We meet families sleeping on the floor after finally securing a roof overhead. We see how one job transition or ...

Students and faculty are fighting planned cuts to programs at Portland Community College. Appeals, petitions and protests are among the tactics to fight cuts the school says are necessary to balance a ...

The walls at Safety Net of Oregon, a nonprofit that once helped disabled people manage their federal benefits, are usually covered with collages and fake flowers. But now the plaster walls are bare ...