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Details: Written by GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer; Published: 02 November 2022

In this photo provided by The Skatepark Project, skateboarder Tony Hawk poses for a picture at the Linda Vista Skatepark in San Diego in 2020. (Courtesy of The Skatepark Project via AP)

Sara Campos of Portland was selected for the first class in The Skatepark Project’s fellowship program, which is training 15 skateboarding enthusiasts in community organizing and project management so they can build a skatepark in their neighborhoods.

Details: Written by CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America; Published: 02 November 2022

Tents line the sidewalk on SW Clay St in Portland, Ore., on Dec. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer, File)

Measure 26-228 would scrap a century-old commission form of government that Portland is the last major U.S. city to use, and also implement a rare form of ranked choice voting.

Details: Written by By JANIE HAR and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press; Published: 01 November 2022

(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California and Oregon approved statewide caps on annual rent increases. California’s annual cap cannot exceed 10% and Oregon’s is set at 7%, plus the consumer price index.

Details: Written by By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press; Published: 27 October 2022

The penalty issued by King County Superior Court Judge Douglass North was the maximum allowed for more than 800 violations of Washington's Fair Campaign Practices Act

Details: Written by By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press; Published: 27 October 2022

(AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File)

The head of the U.S. Forest Service has denounced the arrest by an Oregon sheriff of a Forest Service employee after a planned burn in a national forest spread onto private land.

Details: Written by By Steve Law Portland Tribune; Published: 26 October 2022

Courtesy Photo: Oregon Historical Society

Barely one year after the reconstituted KKK expanded operations into Oregon, the Klan claimed 14,000 members here, 9,000 of them in Portland.

Details: Written by By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press; Published: 25 October 2022

(AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

Amid the boom, dense city neighborhoods are rapidly becoming pressure points in the patchy transition to electrification.

Details: Written by By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press; Published: 24 October 2022

(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

The two candidates also discussed immigration, gun control, and the insurrection in their only scheduled debate before the Nov. 8 election.

Details: Written by By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press; Published: 21 October 2022

(AP Photo/Steve Dipaola)

The election of either candidate would be historic: McLeod-Skinner would be Oregon’s first openly gay congressional delegate, while Chavez-DeRemer is aspiring to be the first Oregon Latina elected to Congress.

Details: Written by By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press; Published: 21 October 2022

A school board member and his 20-year-old stepson turned themselves in last week to face charges of assaulting and interfering with police during the insurrection.