Vancouver WA

I struggled for hours to describe the way I felt after I hard the news that United Farm Workers co-founder and civil rights icon César E. Chávez was accused of sexual assault by a number of women who had worked with him throughout his storied career. It’s surreal...

There’s a coral-colored building in Portland where breakfast dreams come true and the biscuits are so fluffy they might just float off your plate. Mehri’s Cafe and Bakery is serving up the kind of comfort food that makes you want to hug a stranger, and their biscuits and gravy have become the stuff of local legend.

VANCOUVER, WA.–Yet another school district is making tough budget cuts. This time it’s the Evergreen District in Vancouver. Plenty of people had tough messages for the board. A speaker at a public hearing said, “Cutting these programs doesn’t just remove a class. It cuts a passion that may...

Last week, Portland got a gigantic visitor: the USNS Mercy, a 138 million-pound floating military hospital, painted white and marked with giant red crosses, each about the size of a helicopter landing pad. At 894 feet long, the ship would still be 348 feet longer than Portland’s tallest building, the...

(NEXSTAR) – What is the ideal place to live in the United States? A new study claims to have the answer. On Monday, education research platform Niche.com released the findings of its annual “Best Places to Live in America” ranking, which identifies those coveted communities using data from the U.S. Census, FBI,...

An Albany teenager has been sentenced to juvenile custody after admitting responsibility for the accidental shooting death of his friend during a failed gun deal in Portland. Jimmi Lee Lawing, now 19, pleaded guilty earlier this year to first-degree manslaughter in the killing of SSkyler Stuckey, 21. In January, he...

A liquor license application is in the works for the former Scandals space at 1125 SW Harvey Milk St. If everything goes according to plan, the former Scandals, which closed in 2025 after 46 years in business, will be known as Camp. The application was first spotted by urbanist Iain...

BEAVERTON, Ore. — There are many paths into homelessness, and no two stories look the same. But many of them pass through the eviction process — as is the case for a 70-year-old man and his son, now living out of a van in Beaverton. They never saw...

A coming-of-age tale from a professional storyteller is the center of a new solo show by Ash Allen, one of the hosts from the award-winning podcast BACKFENCE Storytelling.

Busy Hands Montessori in northwest Portland abruptly shut its doors last Saturday after what the school's founder called a "mass resignation" by teachers, suddenly leaving more than 80 students without classrooms and families scrambling for child care. Parents say some teachers walked out after discovering retirement...