Come June, the Evening Trades Apprenticeship Preparation Program will be without funding.
But Deborah Williams, the program's director, says she isn't likely to let that happen.

Forty two years after passage of the Fair Housing Act, the small Oregon nonprofit group charged with educating and advocating against housing discrimination still logs 2,000 complaints every year on their telephone hotline.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon officials are trying to figure out how to spend $88 million the Obama administration has promised to help homeowners avoid foreclosed mortgages.

SEATTLE (AP) -- Three Seattle police officers were justified when they used a stun gun on a pregnant mother who refused to sign a traffic ticket, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a case that prompted an incredulous dissent.

Leisure Hour Golf invites you to its multicultural golf mixer. The "Let's Play Golf" Mixer – a 21 or older event -- will be held Tuesday April 13 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Blvd Portland , OR 97211. Email [email protected] by April 6 to confirm.

The federally-funded G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education and Training) Program – arguably a cornerstone of the bureau's youth violence and community outreach efforts – is facing massive defunding in Congress' 2011 budget.

For years, software designers, entrepreneurs and business leaders have argued over an "open Internet" model – where everyone is guaranteed equal access to the web, no matter their wealth. But now, some activists say building an affordable system of ultrahigh speed fiber optic lines is key to economic survival – especially for minority or low-income communities.

According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, law enforcement officers are one of four professions most involved in the use of illegal anabolic steroids. But in Portland, and many major and minor cities across the country, officers are not tested for these substances.

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America call them "perversion files," internal documents used to track Scout leaders suspected of sexually abusing young boys. A judge who had ordered the Scouts to release them received 1,247 files into evidence near the end of the day Friday -- the third day of trial that began with a lawyer saying "you will be the first jury to see them."

Portland has nine high school campuses: Benson, Cleveland, Franklin, Grant, Lincoln, Madison, Marshall, Roosevelt and Wilson -- named after six presidents, one chief justice, an inventor and a timber baron. But in 2011, only seven of those schools may be neighborhood schools, with the two others morphing into smaller, "focus" schools. Last week, in a six to two vote, the school board gave the thumbs up to the plan. They will vote on a more detailed plan in April or May.