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Civil rights activists will rally Aug. 24 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Are we mad enough to make our voices count this time around?

Second Chances are for Everyone is hosting its first-ever public benefit. The nonprofit helps men with corrections records get back on their feet and into work.

A five-alarm fire at Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and N. E. Monroe has left most of a block charred and burning.

The Portland Police Bureau's Missing Persons Unit is asking for the public's help in locating a missing 79-year-old woman with dementia from her residence in Northeast Portland's King neighborhood.

There's still time to plug your kids into the Portland Parks and Recreation Mobile Playgrounds Program.

The Oregon branch of the National Association of Minority Contractors has gained a new president, Andrew Colas. At the same time longtime advocates Faye Burch and Maurice Rahming resigned from the board. NAMCO members and others are asking what happened.

Andrew Colas is the new president of the National Association of Minority Contractors in Oregon. At the same time the board loses longtime advocate Faye Burch and foremr president Maurice Rahming.

Special Education

At Gresham High School in 2011, Michael Muange played wide receiver and safety on the Varsity football team. Nobody guessed that such a strong, fast athlete had a heart condition that would take his life suddenly without warning.