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When cheaper isn't actually cheaper for health insurance 18.12.2025 4:20 ↓

Insurers love to cut costs — but they’re also looking at what happens after a medication is used. In some cases, paying more upfront can reduce emergency care and hospital bills later. A life-saving - and talking - allergy injector helps explain the economics.

In West Linn, a tough lesson on how not to close a school 18.12.2025 4:36 ↓

The West Linn-Wilsonville school board will take up a vote this week to move forward with a school closure plan.

Families, former Portland Public Schools employees fight cuts to language services 18.12.2025 5:48 ↓

PPS dismantled the Language Access Services team last year amid millions of dollars in budget cuts. They say needed services are still provided, but some argue vulnerable families are worse off.

Women’s sports could be an economic win for Portland 15.12.2025 4:24 ↓

Women’s sports could be an economic win for Portland

Celebrating the festival of lights with... glow sticks? 13.12.2025 4:39 ↓

Assaf Mevorach is planning an unusual way to help start the Hanukkah season, a black light rave on Saturday ahead of the first night of Hanukkah.

At Work With: A Forest Ranger 12.12.2025 5:59 ↓

At Work With an Oregon state park forest ranger, Rhett Wilkins, at Tryon Creek State Natural Area.

Ranchers in southeast Oregon helped keep sage grouse off the endangered list. Now, lithium mining could pose a new threat 12.12.2025 4:45 ↓

An exploratory lithium mining project and a federal push for energy dominance could hurt sage grouse conservation efforts.

Willamette, Pacific universities announce plan to merge 12.12.2025 5:04 ↓

Oregon’s two oldest private universities say their plan to consolidate will benefit students, the state’s workforce and help future-proof the institutions.

What to know about the Interstate Bridge Replacement’s rising price tag 11.12.2025 5:02 ↓

What to know about the Interstate Bridge Replacement’s rising price tag

Pour one out for America’s oldest home brewing supply store 10.12.2025 4:48 ↓

F. H. Steinbart’s is closing after more than a century in Portland.

East Portland councilors unveil $21 million proposal to address homelessness 09.12.2025 3:15 ↓

East Portland councilors unveil $21 million proposal to address homelessness

Portland students flex their tech skills to create tree ornaments for Festival of Lights 08.12.2025 3:17 ↓

The ornaments at The Grotto are one of many examples showcasing the high-level tech work coming out of a Northeast Portland school.

A pricey new plan aims to keep Oregon’s foster kids out of hotels 08.12.2025 5:10 ↓

State officials aim to buy providers homes to house vulnerable children. Advocates say it may help provide more stability for Oregon’s foster kids.

Oregon fisheries try old technology to boost salmon returns 06.12.2025 4:39 ↓

After a sudden drop in returning salmon on the Coquille River, a new Oregon law allows old-fashioned hatchboxes to return.

Behind the curtain of The Benson Hotel’s 54th gingerbread castle 04.12.2025 3:48 ↓

Behind the curtain of The Benson Hotel’s 54th gingerbread castle

Oregon struggles to land federal counterterrorism money as Trump orders troops to stop ‘terrorists’ hindering ICE 03.12.2025 4:38 ↓

Oregon struggles to land federal counterterrorism money as Trump orders troops to stop ‘terrorists’ hindering ICE

Those arrested at Portland ICE protests recount disparate, confusing treatment by federal officers 03.12.2025 4:59 ↓

Legal experts say theses contradictory actions may have violated protesters’ rights.

Portland Mayor Wilson says he’s hit his goal to open 1,500 shelter beds 01.12.2025 4:24 ↓

If you ask Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, he has met his goal to open 1,500 new shelter beds by Dec. 1. But only 890 of those 1,500 beds are currently open for use.

Preservationists worry Portland State University’s plan to build for the future could erase the past 01.12.2025 4:40 ↓

Preservationists worry Portland State University’s plan to build for the future could erase the past

In a Portland kitchen, a nonprofit cooks up a small-scale solution to Oregon’s big hunger problem 27.11.2025 4:07 ↓

In a Portland kitchen, a nonprofit cooks up a small-scale solution to Oregon’s big hunger problem

Uncovering Boarding Schools QA 26.11.2025 6:54 ↓

QA with producer Kami Horton about Uncovering Boarding Schools

Indigenous chefs are training the next generation of culinary students 26.11.2025 5:14 ↓

Indigenous chefs are training the next generation of culinary students

Siletz Tribes, Oregon coastal community and OSU scientists learn from beached whale experience 26.11.2025 4:26 ↓

Siletz Tribes, Oregon coastal community and OSU scientists learn from beached whale experience

Newport in limbo amid ICE interest 24.11.2025 5:10 ↓

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland has attracted national attention this year, as demonstrators squared off with federal officers. Now a far smaller Oregon city is bracing for its own possible clash with ICE.

Even with SNAP benefits restored, this Oregon pantry says hunger persists 23.11.2025 4:13 ↓

Even with SNAP benefits restored, this Oregon pantry says hunger persists