In just five months, since "Obamacare" became U.S. law, Oregon has established itself as the state to watch. With a waiver from the feds that frees providers from the traditional fee-for-service payment structure, the state is on a mission to drastically reduce healthcare costs at the same time as delivering healthcare to many more people.

For the first time ever, this year's Hood to Coast relay will feature an all-Black men's team, The Soleful Brothers.
"These brothers, they are doing a 10-minute mile," says Georgeanne Pierce, a walker with the Brothers' companion team, The Soleful Strutters.

Unless we see a high-speed u-turn, Portland City Council will vote September 12, to add fluoride to our water supply.

* Office Furniture * Office desk supplies * File Cabinets * 1940s DeWalt Sander * 1940s table saw * Computers (no hard drive)

A group of 25 men came together Aug. 4, at Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church, to bridge the gulf between church and street.

As some feel hip-hop is being phased out, the tensions between the hip-hop community and the City lead back to a larger conversation on the issue of gentrification.

With hotel beds in demand and construction costs at a low, city leaders gear up to approve a new plan for a convention center hotel.

Plans to export coal to Asia's developing economies would bring coal trains and barges through Portland.  Supporters say we need the jobs and money. Opponents say we'd lose more than we'd gain.

Portlander Sharie Lynn Smith died Aug. 4 in a rafting accident on the Deschutes River, and local residents there are questioning whether there should be more warning signs on the stretch before the Lava Island Falls rapids.

Tamping down an outcry over gentrification, the Sons of Haiti Masonic Lodge is looking for donations of all sorts of supplies -- from brushes to scaffolding -- to bring the North Mississippi Avenue community together with a painting party.