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Tourism bosses in Portland have taken out a full-page advert in the New York Times admitting the riot-hit city has an 'edge' - but urging visitors to come anyway.   Travel Portland - a nonprofit which oversees the Oregon city's tourism marketing - referenced reports of far-left violence in the city in the ad.  It admits that much of what has been said about Portland - whose 50-stron...

American Airlines has canceled hundreds of flights that were scheduled over the next month, citing a labor shortage combined with weather delays. According to Reuters and CNBC, the airline has canceled about 1% of the flights that had been scheduled through mid-July. The company cited a current labor shortage, combined with an increase in demand for travel as more Americans get vaccinated. The tip...

It's more expensive to rent a single-family home this year in the greater Seattle area than last, but the cost of renting an apartment is dropping. In April, the cost of renting a single-family home was up 4.3%. Meanwhile, apartment rents dropped 11%. The median price of a single-family home in the greater Seattle area was $2,811 in March, according to a report by CoreLogic, making it the fou...

The commander of Portland’s Rapid Response Team had called a meeting of the specialized unit’s approximately 50 officers at the Penumbra Kelly Building in Southeast Portland Wednesday night to hear their concerns. Just over two hours later, all the officers present voted to resign from the specialized crowd control team. They cited a host of factors: a lack of clear direction from the chief’s offi...

The King County Board of Health is looking into whether it should repeal the county’s bicycle helmet law, after concerns it is unfairly enforced and targets people of color. Central Seattle Greenways, a group advocating for safer streets, started researching the law last year in the wake of nationwide protests over racial inequality. “We found that Black cyclists have been cited disproportionately...

The smell of fresh empanadas wafted through the stands at Portland’s Saturday Market. People talked through their masks with artists as others sifted through fork windchimes, crystal necklaces, tie dye dresses and clay mugs. The weekly event was smaller than in years past, but longtime attendees say it was a sign of life being breathed back into downtown. Nine blocks away, past businesses still sh...

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) is introducing a bill on Friday aimed at blocking members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from buying land in the United States. Although the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States does review some attempts by foreign entities to buy land in the country, the bill would completely stop CCP members from buying either public or private land in the U.S.  The...

The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday backed a proposal to ban landlords from harassing tenants. The ordinance defines tenant harassment as “a landlord’s knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific tenant or tenants that causes detriment or harm, and that serves no lawful purpose.” The ordinance also bans any repeated actions that interfere with or disturb a tenant’s comfort t...

The number of Californians leaving the Bay Area has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly from San Francisco, according to a new study released Thursday. Despite suggestions of a California exodus to other states in recent months, most who leave that region do not move far, though many Sierra counties saw a large influx of migrants from San Francisco compared with 2019. Among those...

What do homebuyers have to do to get a house in this cutthroat real estate market? Offer sellers a Caribbean vacation? Bid $1 million over the asking price? Pay a competing bidder hundreds of thousands of dollars to walk away? What about buying two homes just to live in one? Believe it or not, these are real offers. And sometimes, they actually work. "You hear about buyers throwing sweeteners...

A Portland, Ore., man has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree arson for starting a dumpster fire near the city’s North Precinct during a protest. Authorities say Gavaugh Street-Hillerich, 23, was recorded intentionally setting fire to a large dumpster near the exterior of the police precinct on June 26, 2020. The dumpster was pushed up against plywood on th...

The Rapid Response Team, a unit within the Portland police department, voted unanimously to resign on Wednesday during a meeting with the police union. This follows the criminal indictment of an officer for assault stemming from a riot in August 2020, sources within the police bureau told The Post Millennial. Officer Corey Budworth was on the Rapid Response Team, a group police officers that volun...

The Seattle Police Department is cracking down on ongoing organized shoplifting groups, leading to a retail theft operation that resulted in 53 arrests in a single day and thousands of dollars recovered in stolen merchandise.  "These are organized groups that hit retailers with the sole purpose of stealing to either resell them or use them as currency for other things," said Sgt. Randy H...

Only a few Portland police officers so far have volunteered to staff a new uniformed team to proactively address gun violence with greater community oversight. The trouble finding officers has prompted a special recruiting effort to get bureau members to sign up. The team is supposed to have 12 officers and two sergeants. Meanwhile, nine residents named so far to monitor the team met Friday via vi...

There’s growing pressure from the business community for city leaders to clear an encampment that stretches an entire block of 3rd Avenue between Pike and Union streets and located in the heart of downtown Seattle. Even by Seattle standards, the camp violates the city’s tolerance of where people have been allowed to pitch a tent. The city has allowed tents between the curb and the edge of the side...

In today’s highly competitive real estate market, it’s all too common for buyers to rush into a deal that doesn’t fit their budget or suit their needs. Millennials, in particular, have the most regrets after buying a home, according to a new Bankrate survey. Buyer’s regrets are even more of a factor in the pandemic, with sight-unseen offers and contingencies waived to win the bid. The survey highl...

There’s growing pressure from the business community for city leaders to clear an encampment that stretches an entire block of 3rd Avenue between Pike and Union streets and located in the heart of downtown Seattle. Even by Seattle standards, the camp violates the city’s tolerance of where people have been allowed to pitch a tent. The city has allowed tents between the curb and the edge of the side...

L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has inserted himself into the homelessness situation in Venice Beach, visiting the area with several deputies this week after announcing his department is stepping in to clear the encampment there. "Today I visited the Venice Boardwalk again to view the failures of local politicians in regard to the homeless crisis," Villanueva tweeted on Monday. The O...

The family of a Lynnwood property owner forced entry into their home on Monday in order to evict three people who are accused of moving into the house with their belongings, changing the locks on doors and creating a fraudulent lease. Amir Rai said he brought friends with crow bars to get inside the property, located in the 6200 block of 208th street SW in Lynnwood. “So I broke the windows of our...

In 1982, the Kennesaw City Council passed an ordinance requiring every head of household to possess a functioning firearm at their homes, The Daily Wire reports. The Georgia suburb consisted of around 5,000 people, each of whom would now live within feet of a deadly weapon. Within a year of the mandate, civilians and politicians alike were stunned by the outcome. As the gun control debate rages on...

It’s been one year since people protesting police violence marched to Seattle's East Police Precinct and found that police had abandoned the area. That started a protest zone that garnered national attention — the CHOP. After a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd on May 25, 2020, anti-police brutality demonstrations sprung up around Seattle. People marched from downtown up to the...

May was a month of record-setting highs and lows for some key housing market indicators tracked by Northwest Multiple Listing Service. Northwest MLS director Robb Wasser, branch manager at Windermere Real Estate/East in Bellevue, noted the number of active listings for single family homes dropped from April to May for the first time in at least 20 years. The month-to-month decline was small (only...

More than two dozen suspected Antifa rioters have been charged in Portland in the past two weeks, signaling an escalation by both local and federal prosecutors following a full year of riots in the besieged Oregon city. On Thursday, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office announced charges against 10 suspects following several grand jury indictments. Maximilian Ryan Jennings, 23, James Wal...

Signs of renewal abounded this week in downtown Portland. Hundreds flocked to the Portland Farmers Market at Shemanski Park for produce while others soaked in the sun and socialized at Pioneer Courthouse Square. Tents and trash that have troubled some visitors and residents for months during the pandemic have started to vanish. Yet virtually every block in the heart of the city continues to have b...

The Seattle Times filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that the city of Seattle mishandled requests from reporters for officials’ text messages during a tumultuous period last summer when police abandoned the East Precinct and used tear gas on protesters. The complaint, filed in King County Superior Court, follows a whistleblower investigation that found Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office violated s...