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Lawyers for a Portland State University professor who has been on administrative leave since June say the university engaged in unlawful discrimination and retaliation against her. PSU placed Yasmeen Hanoosh on paid administrative leave on June 6, after a video emerged online showing a conversation with her at a...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The City of Portland is preparing to remove a homeless camp that has built up outside the former Assembly Brewing location on Southeast Foster Road. On Thursday, clean-up crews were already on the scene, picking items up with garbage bags. City officials confirmed the removal is happening “in...

This story has been updated to include comments from Deputy City Administrator Donnie Olivera's office. The former director of the Portland Housing Bureau says she was ousted for trying to advance City Council’s social housing policy and was unfairly blamed for revenue that went unspent prior to her appointment to...

A 25-year veteran of Portland Fire & Rescue has settled out of court for $60,000 after alleging years of race-based discrimination and retaliation, becoming the third Black firefighter in the past year and a half to sue the City of Portland for racial discrimination.

One of the country’s oldest homebrew supply stores — a cornerstone of Portland’s craft beer scene — will close its doors this year after more than a century. >> Business opening or closing in your neighborhood? Email the reporter at [email protected]. F.H. Steinbart began in 1918,...

Cafeteria workers and school food professionals are often among a school’s unsung heroes, putting in long hours to prepare nutritious lunches, and even working over the summer to make sure their students are well-fed. But one professional in Beaverton, Oregon, went the extra mile to help 6-year-old Julian Worsham.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Police worked with the FBI to arrest five people and seize hundreds of grams of fentanyl, thousands of dollars, and a gun during an operation targeting drugs in the city. The operation, carried out Wednesday, focused on fentanyl downtown and on the city’s eastside.

An Oregon attorney accused of relying' on the totally plausible — and often totally erroneous — output of so-called artificial intelligence was slapped with a fine by the Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday. The appellate court determined that Portland civil attorney Gabriel A. Watson filed briefs citing...

Prosecutors this week dismissed a felony assault charge against a Portland woman who was set to challenge the allegation with video that caught her brushing aside a federal officer’s arm outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in October. Lucy Caroline Shepherd, 28, was arrested Oct. 31 after...

The 22-year-old was shot and killed in Northwest Portland on Sept. 23, and an investigation is ongoing with no arrests made yet.