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Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 24 June 2021

(Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times via AP)

A local lawmaker wants to condemn a city-owned park in Seattle with a large homeless encampment next to a courthouse and declare the area a public safety hazard or nuisance property.

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 24 June 2021

(photo/Jon Tyson)

Senate Bill 397 would provide a more efficient and equitable path to a better future for thousands of Oregonians with a criminal record

Details: Written by SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America; Published: 23 June 2021

Police in Oregon's largest city are being advised to no longer pursue low-level traffic infractions

Details: Written by Saundra Sorenson; Published: 22 June 2021

EXCLUSIVE with former county commissioner and two-time Portland City Council candidate who wants to keep focus on education, police reform.

Details: Written by EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer; Published: 21 June 2021

(AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

The 35-year-old mom rallied from fifth at the start of the homestretch to the second-place finish at U.S. track trials.

Details: Written by ADAM BEAM Associated Press; Published: 19 June 2021

Eleven U.S. mayors — from Los Angeles to tiny Tullahassee, Oklahoma — have pledged to pay reparations for slavery to a small group of Black residents in their cities, saying their aim is to set an example for the federal government on how a nationwide program could work

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 18 June 2021

(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

The governor's office said Wednesday that a judge ruled to dismiss the petition filed in May by five residents in a citizen group known as Washingtonians to Recall Inslee

Details: Written by TERRY TANG Associated Press; Published: 18 June 2021

(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Lawmakers are reviving calls to end a loophole in the Constitution that allowed another form of slavery — forced labor for convicted felons — to thrive.

about-Olympics

Details: Written by EDDIE PELLS and PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writers; Published: 17 June 2021

(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Banned runner Shelby Houlihan is in the lineup and will be allowed to run at U.S. Olympic track and field trials while any appeals she files are pending.

Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 17 June 2021

The move to disband their own team came a day after Officer Cody Budworth, was indicted, accused of fourth-degree assault stemming from a baton strike against a protester last summer.