News A Portland firefighter sustained serious injuries to the face and head Monday in bizarre incident involving a giant socket. The trouble began at roughly 11 am, when a 1981 Buick Skylark heading we ...   More

News Immigrants are like geese--once you let them in, they shit all over the place. The world Muslim population could absorb the loss of 200 million people--they'll just make more. Outsiders are killin ...   More

News The 78-year-old Molalla osteopath who has signed applications for roughly half of Oregon's medical-marijuana cardholders will hang on to his license if the state Board of Medical Examiners approve ...   More

News Demonstrators and counter-demonstrators clashed Friday over the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.Under a forbidding sky, approximately 500 Portlanders converged on Pioneer Square for the protes ...   More

News What happens when you don't pay your phone bill? The phone company cuts off your service, of course. But what happens when the phone company won't pay its bills?That's the question looming over Ci ...   More

News Ken Brown's world collapsed on Nov. 6, 1991, at approximately three o'clock in the afternoon, when he was on his way to the hardware store for a 49-cent plumbing fixture.While he sped north on a b ...   More

News Well, there goes Saturday night. If voters approve a proposed ballot measure, Oregonians will no longer be able to engage in the "cruel and inhumane confinement of pigs."If approved, Initiative 179 ...   More

News The kickball score is 13 to five, and the girls are losing. Standing at the plate, her headscarf fluttering in the breeze, 12-year-old Fatima delivers a majestic, soaring punt over the heads of th ...   More

News With time running out to avert a strike, nurses and administrators at Oregon Health & Science University are preparing for battle--limbering up like wrestlers spoiling for a smackdown.Last wee ...   More

News Piecing together the jigsaw puzzle of Multnomah County's fractured mental-health system was never going to be easy. Increasingly, however, it appears that County Chair Diane Linn must worry not only a ...   More