Oregon’s Secretary of State won’t investigate complaints alleging Portland’s police chief violated laws pertaining to political activity of public employees. The Secretary of State (SoS) received six ...

Clean water and healthy soil for East County. Steph Routh is running for East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, At-Large Director Position 2. Vote by November 3.

The Overtime Dashboard is an interactive data visualization of Portland Police Bureau usage of overtime. This tool provides custom analysis of overtime data to interested members of the community and ...

A new complaint filed with the city, county, and state elections offices alleges multiple political action committees violated independent expenditure rules when they failed to properly report informa...

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After jurors saw the man shackled outside the courtroom, his attorney should have sought a mistrial, the court found.

A judge ruled that wearing nice clothes, driving a “newer” car and being Hispanic did not constitute probable cause to arrest Ricardo Olivas-Sentael for drug trafficking.

Partners say this effort was driven by growing concerns that Rocky Shores might be developed for real estate purposes, which would threaten the land’s delicate ecosystem and the Siletz people’s historic ties to it.

False Promises and Fiscal Realities of Publicly Funded Stadiums, by economist J.C. Bradbury.

A new proposal is the latest effort to address LA's notorious deputy gang problem.

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These high-powered weapons are only meant for police. How are they ending up in criminals' hands?

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Abby, a transportation accessibility advocate and urban planning student in Portland, grew up as a blind individual in rural Washington State. Abby shares her personal journey navigating transportatio...

“You get two Jews in a room, you’re going to get three different opinions,” Kelcie Smolin Grega, a Jewish resident in City Council District 4 says. It’s an old joke—one that was echoed by others who s...

City officials say they’re evaluating complaints made by Portland’s largest police union against a city councilor.  On March 19, Aaron Schmautz, president of the Portland Police Association, fired off...

Amid the surging anti-Flock and anti-surveillance tech backlash, here’s what we know about Portland Police use of automated license plate reader tech.

Chicago taxpayers should pay more than $260.8 million to 17 men who spent decades in prison after they were coerced into confessing to crimes by a disgraced former Chicago police detective, city lawye...

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.

If you didn’t know any better, you might think downtown’s City Council district is down to four candidates vying for three seats. “Final four square off,” reads a headline announcing a downtown candid...