When prison staff told Natalia Hernandez in August she was being released early, she initially didn’t want to leave. “At one point, I even begged them to stay,” she recently told lawmakers. At the ...

Oregon House District 28 Oregon House District 28 contains portions of Multnomah and Washington counties – covering Raleigh Hills, Garden Home, Hillsdale, and parts of southwestern and downtown ...

The Oregon Legislature is currently in its 2025 session, and Street Roots is publishing regular updates throughout its duration. Among the legislation being considered are bills impacting tenant ...

“And I learned (later) that they found a skull in the basement,” Secret said, completely jolting me out of a story she was sharing about a time when a rude customer on her newspaper route challenged ...

When developers broke ground on a half-billion-dollar luxury hotel and condo highrise in 2019, developer Walter Bowen and local officials boasted the project would contribute the largest investment in ...

SR editorial: Health care crisis far wider than DOJ report When it comes to police conduct in this city, there is always a bounty of finger pointing to go around. The Department of Justice’s report on ...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a free trade agreement among Pacific Rim nations, is possibly the biggest story you’ve never heard of. That’s partly by design. The United States and the eleven ...

Anjeanette Brown lives in Portland and works in Gresham. For about a year, now, she’s been a waitress for a local restaurant that is part of a chain, and has worked with the parent company for 10 ...

In the late 1800s, three families pooled their resources to create Home, an anarchist community on a peninsula in Puget Sound where they embraced radical views and free love. Historian Justin Wadland ...

Just what the legislature ordered: Oregon races the clock to restructure its low-income health care system By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer Autumn Bolds begins the day’s huddle by telling Dr. Rachel ...

Batula Mohamud can’t tell you her age. On paper she’s 26, but she says she’s most likely younger – probably 22 or 23 years old. She was born in Somalia but was forced to flee the country with her ...

Helping U.S. forces made many Iraqi and Afghan interpreters targets in their own countries, and the visa program intended to help them has fallen under heavy fire Fifty-year-old Omar Al-Kubaisi says ...