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More officers are leaving this year than City Hall budgeted for, yielding an estimated $15 million in salary savings

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The Oregon Transportation Commission has granted conditional approval to a plan to expand Interstate 5,  as well as build a cap over the freeway to allow for the redevelopment of a Black community destroyed when the interstate was first built.

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Nearly three weeks after armed far-right and far-left protesters violently clashed in the streets of a diverse neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, the city's mayor said the lack of police intervention was “not the right strategy."

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Skyview High School senior Dylan Walker, 18, shows his support for masks in school during a demonstration with classmates and other protesters in Vancouver, Wash., on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian via AP) 

Officials said they sought the injunction after people protesting a school mask requirement came onto the Skyview High School campus Friday, prompting lockdowns at several schools.

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Most consumers don’t pay much attention to the packaging that their purchases come in, unless it’s hard to open or the item is really over-wrapped. But packaging accounts for about 28% U.S. municipal solid waste. 

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Clifford Chappell, senior pastor of St. Johns All Nations Church of God in Christ in Portland 

Religious and health care leaders share their own vaccination stories.

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Governor Kate Brown 

Gov. Kate Brown, alongside state health and education officials, urged Oregonians on Tuesday to wear masks and get vaccinated as the highly transmissible delta variant continues to run rampant.

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Kenneth Forman and his son (Photo/Laurel Smith) 

How a conscientious stranger, the Genealogical Forum of Oregon, and The Skanner teamed up to find the Foremans.

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(Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times via AP) 

Backers of a measure that would change Seattle’s approach to homelessness are appealing a judge’s decision that blocked it from the November ballot.

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Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat like Kotek, cannot run for re-election in 2022 due to term limits.

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