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Editor’s note: We recently asked readers to send in their most burning questions about homelessness. One of the top questions ...
The suspect accused of stabbing and killing a Portland man dubbed the "Sheriff of Clinton Street" nearly a year ago is set to ...
A new report puts a price tag on just how much money is being spent on the homeless in the Portland metro area, and it isn’t small. Read online: ...
Researchers found that more than $700 million went to a total of 522 different uses across the tri-county area meant to ...
The state Legislature passed at least a dozen bills meant to protect renter security deposits, boost housing production and ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — There’s a small nonprofit in Old Town, p:ear, that works with homeless youth to mentor them to a ...
Proponents of anti-camping laws deny that they criminalize homelessness, but there is no doubt that they criminalize the ...
The change also means fewer cleanups along highways and bridges, part of the fallout from the state legislature’s failure to ...
A European family's experience in downtown Seattle raises safety alarms, igniting discussions about urban security and ...
I penned a My Turn entitled “Homeless Not Helpless” for the Juneau Empire. In that column, I defended then-Mayor Koelsch’s ...
North Portland to open a drop-in center for the homeless in mid-July 2025, offering daytime services but not overnight ...
Members of the regional Metro Council agreed at a work session Tuesday that there was not a likely path to passage for a planned November ballot measure that would have sought to extend the region’s ...