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Former Portland Timbers star Diego Valeri led his team to win the 2015 MLS Cup and was ultimately named the league's MVP in 2017. Valeri now covers matches as a studio analyst for the Spanish broadcasts on MLS Season Pass. Valeri weighs in on his role off the field, and what the future of Major League Soccer might look like in North America.

Biden moves to reclassify cannabis

Oregonians are being asked to create more defensible space around their homes, with vegetation modified in that space to reduce wildfire threat and help firefighters defend the house.

School officials say they’ve given Portland police the authority to clear the library at some point.

Preparing for wildfire season with defensible spaces

Emails released Friday confirm that senior members of the governor’s team had questioned Aimee Kotek Wilson’s expanding role.

Native youth have the highest suicide rate of any demographic in the country and need solutions that address their unique needs.

On a Portland sidestreet, there's a window just above street level - the window of poet Anis Mojgani's studio. The humble space belies the exalted title he's held for the past four years: Oregon poet laureate. The Evergreen's Jenn Chávez visited his studio to ask him what it's like to be a poet and to serve as the state's poet laureate, for the latest interview in OPB's "At Work With" series.

Warm Springs members establish an indigenous crisis line

Records obtained by OPB offer new insight about Elias Huizar’s past and the events that led to his ex-wife’s death and the death of his 17-year-old girlfriend.

On Thursday night, a small group of protesters set up tents and barricades in the South Park Blocks in Portland. The encampment was in support of Palestinians in Gaza and in protest of Portland State University’s ties with companies that have contracts with Israel. By midday Friday, the University announced it will temporarily pause accepting gifts or grants from the Boeing Company.

Both men’s and women’s rugby clubs of Western Oregon University have qualified for the Rugby 7s Collegiate National Championships which take place this week in Maryland. This is the first time both teams qualified in the same year and the first time Western’s women’s team has made it to the national championships.

Measure 110 is history, but one Eastern Oregon recovery group soldiers on

For more than 50 years, Earth Day has been used by environmental advocates to raise awareness and support sustainability and environmental protection.

Portland's pet grief support group is still going strong

Portland has become a popular destination for musicians who made their names in other cities or music scenes. A new addition to that list is Freedy Johnston.

Last month, Portland Public Schools, Multnomah County and a nonprofit organization running an afterschool program were sued on behalf of an elementary schooler. The allegation from a female student and her family involves sexual harassment and unwanted touching by classmates and other children. The traumatic events occurred two years ago, when the girl was only nine years old.

Portland’s ongoing attempt to regulate homeless camps on public property hit another snag this week. Now, two of the top candidates for mayor are on opposite sides of the divisive issue.

Multnomah County and American Medical Response have been at an impasse for about a year over a shortage of paramedics and ambulances arriving late to the scenes of life-threatening emergencies. The county and AMR enter a second mediation session this week.

States across the country have attempted to tamp down gun violence by placing restrictions on firearms. But a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling has roiled lower courts.

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The city of Portland could sell the RedTail Golf Center to the Portland Diamond Project, who want to bring an MLB team to Oregon. But the city's Golf Advisory Committee says doing so would make the golf system financially unstable.

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