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Oregon Symphony’s ‘Heroes’ brings video game heroes to life 29.02.2024 5:23 ↓

The Oregon Symphony will perform musical arrangements from beloved video games at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Oregon’s unemployment insurance, paid leave programs will go offline to prep for new website 29.02.2024 4:33 ↓

To complete the transition, the benefits systems will close at 5 p.m. Wednesday and reopen on the upgraded site at 8 a.m. Monday.

Fed up with slow fix, Oregon residents sue businesses over nitrate pollution 29.02.2024 4:24 ↓

More than three decades into a nitrate pollution crisis, a handful of Lower Umatilla Basin residents are escalating their concerns to the courts.

Audio 25.02.2024 5:46 ↓

Ride along with the people who lift the bridges of Multnomah County up and down.

Campaign finance limits crafted by major donors will now go before Oregon lawmakers 23.02.2024 3:55 ↓

Business and labor groups have negotiated a system of contribution limits they hope to push through before lawmakers adjourn March 10. Critics say the proposal is weak.

Multnomah County chair continues to blame AMR for slow ambulances 21.02.2024 5:04 ↓

Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson is responding to mounting public pressure for the county to reconsider its ambulance staffing requirements and address slow response times countywide.

JAMO Shimabukuro exhibit 18.02.2024 5:03 ↓

JAMO Shimabukuro exhibit

Portland’s new NBA G League team offers training for the competitive world of sports business 17.02.2024 5:01 ↓

The team behind the team: Rip City Remix is powered by seven staff members and eight paid interns launching careers in sports marketing and finance

Oregon’s drug decriminalization aimed to make police a gateway to rehab, not jail. State leaders failed to make it work 17.02.2024 6:55 ↓

Just over three years since Oregon voters passed Ballot Measure 110, elected officials want to repeal key elements, blaming the law for open drug use and soaring overdoses. But it’s their own hands-off approach that isn’t working, advocates say.

Newport is trying to lure airlines back to town 15.02.2024 5:30 ↓

Newport is trying to lure airlines back to town

Bob Moore, founder of an Oregon-based global food company, dies at 94 13.02.2024 5:49 ↓

Founded in 1978, Bob’s Red Mill initially served only the Portland area, but over the years it grew into a global corporation selling more than 200 products.

Sports betting surges in Oregon, as expert caution risks of digital gambling 11.02.2024 4:51 ↓

Sports Betting Has Changed In Oregon

Lan Su rings in year of the Dragon 09.02.2024 3:59 ↓

Lan Su garden celebrates Lunar New Year in Portland

Oregon’s aspiring tree climbers reach new heights 06.02.2024 3:41 ↓

Students at Cottage Grove-based national tree climbing school push themselves to the limit to become professional pine cone collectors

Audio 05.02.2024 4:34 ↓

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Portland police and use of force 01.02.2024 4:50 ↓

Newer Portland police officers are more likely to use force, according to an analysis of newer recruits.

Citations for public drug use have little effect 31.01.2024 5:29 ↓

Citations for public drug use have little effect

In downtown Portland’s fentanyl crisis, Oregon leaders declare emergency 31.01.2024 4:04 ↓

The city, county and state governments declared an emergency surrounding fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid, though the announcement won’t include additional funding.

Genetic study sheds light on Northwest’s extinct woolly dogs, and how Taylor Swift shook the earth 29.01.2024 10:42 ↓

OPB’s “All Science, No Fiction” producer Jes Burns joins Lillian Karabaic for a monthly round-up of research coming out of Pacific Northwest.

At Work With: Video Store Clerk 29.01.2024 6:55 ↓

A few iconic video stores are still holding strong in the Northwest, keeping the movie rental dream alive for renters young and old. For OPB's At Work With Series, we hear from video store clerk Sara Reinhart from Portland's Movie Madness about what it's like to work in a movie lover's paradise.

Timberline Lodge isn't the only historic log building on Mt Hood 29.01.2024 5:51 ↓

Timberline Lodge isn't the only historic log building on Mt Hood

Drug overdoses are a daily problem for Portland's first responders 29.01.2024 7:32 ↓

Drug overdoses are a daily problem for Portland's first responders

Homeless youth weigh in on ways to address Oregon’s ongoing crisis 27.01.2024 5:38 ↓

Three young people with lived experience of homelessness share their ideas on how to improve support for Oregon’s homeless youth.

How fentanyl and social isolation have worsened youth homelessness crisis in Oregon 26.01.2024 5:31 ↓

New challenges are overwhelming an already inadequate network of services for young people struggling with substance abuse.

Oregon agriculture companies offer help with Lower Umatilla Basin nitrate pollution, but skeptics remain 24.01.2024 4:26 ↓

Environmental group accuses them of “greenwashing” their own role in nitrate pollution