Evening News

Portland Public Schools and the school board are at an impasse in labor negotiations with the teachers' union. The Portland Student Union is solidly behind their teachers and vow to walk with them on the picket line. KBOO's Joe Meyer spoke with Portland Association of Te... Read more

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Yesterday evening, the Oregon Board of Forestry unanimously approved a federal forest plan personally presented by Governor John Kitzhaber. The plan aims to direct the Board's actions in order to create a more favorable context for both commercial and stewardship activit... Read more

This morning, protesters with Rising Tide interrupted a "power" breakfast being held by Governor Kitzhaber at downtown Portland's Governor Hotel, in order to give voice to concerns over the movement of megaloads of extraction equipment through tribal land in Eastern Oreg... Read more

KBOO's Genevieve McDaniel speaks with Kent Craford, a water ratepayer advocate and one of the chief petitioners working towards establishing a Portland Water District separate from City Council control. Read more

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The Port of Portland cited cumbersome costs associated with the terms of use as their reason for withdrawing a revitalized and long standing plan to industrially develop West Hayden Island. Negotiations began for this latest effort in the late nineties, but it wasn’t a... Read more

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The deparment of Defense released their annual report on recruitment in U.S. high schools over the last year. But the data has raised a number of questions for privacy advocates-including whether a military test administred to high school students is considered voluntar... Read more