News Briefs

Below are fast-breaking news items.

about-Seattle

Details: Written by Seattle Ethics & Elections Commission; Published: 07 December 2016

City offers new way to participate in city government

Details: Written by Venture Portland; Published: 29 November 2016

The Foster Area Business Association will light their three foot traveling tree Twiggy at Laurelwood City Park at 6 p.m.

about-Seattle

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 23 November 2016

Keynote Speaker Attorney Craig Sims talks with a member of the audience before speaking at the 6th Annual Mothers for Police Accountability Justice Breakfast. Photo by Susan Fried

NAACP Election, Private Prisons, Housing and more

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 23 November 2016

Portland Parks & Recreation will host a Native American Marketplace & Family Day Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016

NAACP, Community Forum, Job Training and more

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 21 November 2016

The Wake of Vanport oral history documentary screened at the historic Hollywood Theatre in Northeast Portland November 20, 2016.

The Skanner News screened the newest edition of the Wake of Vanport series at the historic Hollywood Theatre in Northeast Portland.

Details: Written by Portland State University; Published: 18 November 2016

Portland State University, Picture taken October 2006 by Josef Lotz, CC-BY-SA.

Portland State President Wim Wiewel declared the university a sanctuary campus

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 17 November 2016

PCC Cascade President Karin Edwards and Eveyln Crowell at the open house celebrating the new Center for African American Community History in the library to open in 2017.

PCC Cascade hosted an open house to celebrate a new African American community history center in honor of the librarian and philanthropist