EVERETT, Wash. (AP) -- Diane Loop bought her house six years ago and planned to live a quiet life.
Did she ever go in another direction. Loop opened her home to women who have no place to go when they leave prison...

SEATTLE (AP) -- January's warm temperatures in Western Washington may set a record...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A Portland police officer transferred to work at a property evidence warehouse has filed a whistleblower complaint against the Portland Police Bureau claiming he is being punished for speaking out...

The 4th Annual Youth Summit is all day on Feb. 6, starting at 11 a.m. at Portland State University Smith Memorial Union, with pizza social at 6 p.m. and talent showcase kicking off at 6:30 p.m.

The Z Man Foundation hosted its first annual Wrestling Tournament Saturday, Jan. 23, at Grant High School.
All proceeds benefited the foundation, which provides scholarship opportunities for local youth to attend local college prep high schools.

In the last few days, Bernard Ferere hasn't received any more bad news from his brother...

A rollercoaster. A business park. An aquarium.
Last night, dozens of architects, designers and visionaries presented their plans to convert the Memorial Coliseum into something they believe will better suit the city's needs.

SEATTLE (AP) -- With winter half gone, some weather experts say the Green River Valley south of Seattle may have avoided catastrophic flooding, at least this season. The El Nino weather pattern affecting the Pacific Coast has helped bring a warm January to the Pacific Northwest, along with drenching rains and snow to California.

COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (AP) -- Ben West was scheduled to fly into Haiti's second-largest city on Jan. 15, to launch a project designed to address a critical problem in a country stripped of as much as 99 percent of its forests. Haiti needed stoves. Haiti needed stoves because an estimated 800,000 of its residents cook either on an open fire or with an unimproved stove that resembles a baby's crib with no mattress in it -- "horribly inefficient," said West, general manager of the fledgling company StoveTec, a for-profit spinoff of the Cottage Grove nonprofit Aprovecho Research Center...

In response to appeals for charitable causes, a new movement in generous giving is sweeping the nation: Text message donations.
It was recently reported that U.S.-based cell phone users had already contributed millions of dollars towards Haiti disaster relief efforts using a Short Message Service (SMS). Additionally, an increasing number of mobile marketing companies (MMCs) and celebrities are encouraging donations from text messengers.