Evening News

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

A report on top 12 states that are leading the way in SOLAR power energy was released today. The report was called  Lighting The Way: What We Can Learn From America’s Top 12 Solar States.   The report also oulines the conditions and policies that have enabled a rise in ... Read more

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KBOO’s Jimmy Tardy spoke with Liz Ford, Professor of Labor Law at Seattle University, about the recent Boeing machinists’ contract negotiations and vote. Read more

The war on poverty was launched fifty years ago this week by Lyndon Johnson in his 1964 state of the union address. For an update on the effort, KBOO’s Joe Meyer spoke with Jill Quadango of the Institute for Public Accuracy. Read more