Since merging with LifeWorks NW nearly a year ago, Children's Relief Nursery has continued to expand its services to children and families.

Following up on an expansion of their community and new offices on Northeast Martin Luther King Boulevard, the International Center for Traditional Childbearing hosts its second Afro-Centric Pregnancy Fair, Saturday, June 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Lents Park at SE 92nd and Holgate in southeast Portland.

A fundraiser for the Amiri International Development Union will entertain guests with African dancing and a variety of delicious food and drinks.

Multnomah County library is taking applications for a five-week summer program where youth aged 13 to 18 will make a video about their grandparent, or another important elder in their lives.

Farewell Rudy Crew. The New York educator who came to Oregon a year ago to transform the state's education system is leaving, to head one of the colleges in City University of New York's system.

The Friends of Last Thursday committee resigned in a unanimous protest, Monday, saying the City of Portland is making unreasonable demands that will spoil Alberta Street's signature event.

Seattle and Portland will both benefit from $20 million in grants from the U.S.  Department of Labor. The grants will go to 16 prisoner re-entry programs across the country to support training and employment programs for prison inmates in pre-release employment programs.

(CNN) -- The prosecution in the George Zimmerman trial in Florida asked 40 potential jurors about a wide range of subjects Wednesday, the eighth day of jury selection.

This year the Londer Learning center celebrates its 20th year of helping corrections clients pass the GED exam and go on to build careers and attend college. For the first time, the graduates wore caps and gowns donated by prison inmates thanks to a fundraising effort by Ezekiel Stroschein.

Mayor McGinn is touting a new program, Read and Rise, to push students toward literacy by third grade.