Evening News

  Portland Water Bureau continues to deal with the E.coli contamination by observing federal regulations for public safety.  Portland is underway covering Powell Butte and Kelly Butte reservoirs. For more on this story we turn to Barbara Nelson for KBOO evening news who ... Read more

The group ‘health care for all Oregon’ plans to gather outside Portland’s city council meeting tomorrow morning to demand that the city disclose the amount of money paid by Providence healthcare to rename the Timbers stadium to “Providence Field’. In February, the Portla... Read more

Also at today’s city council meeting, the council approved the payment of eight hundred thousand dollars to a pregnant woman who was left brain-damaged after a nearly head-on collision in 2010. During a trial in 2012, Jack Dean Whiteaker, the man responsible for the cras... Read more

Speakers: -Cassie Cohn, March co-organizer, reading statement from Vandana Shiva, reknowned scientist and food safety/environmental/human rights activist from India https://www.facebook.com/MAMPDX http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/ -Magdaleno Rose-Avila, long-time farm... Read more

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The U-S House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing this week to address what they called the ‘need for innovation’ in the U-S postal Service. Portland Community & Postal Workers United Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/314208358664497/   K... Read more

Monday is Memorial Day, the holiday celebrating U.S. Army veterans who died while serving their country’s wars. And today Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries announced that the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office violated a law protecting preference for veterans in its... Read more

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The office of the now-defunct Columbia River Crossing Bridge is closing its office for good next week. Oregon and Washington have spent a total of two hundred million dollars on the project –about half of which came from federal matching funds. The new I-5 bridge was expec... Read more

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