PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" -- a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana without causing combustion. Glass jars hold donations of dried, milky-green weed, and the cafe serves up meals and snacks for the hungry.

In a new study, the amount of television viewed by many young children in child care settings doubles the previous estimates of early childhood screen time, with those in home-based settings watching significantly more on average than those in center-based daycares.
The study is the first to examine screen time in child care settings in more than 20 years.

Low-income children who don't access health care from the same place or provider over the long term are significantly more likely to have unmet health care needs compared with those do, according to a new study by Oregon Health and Sciences University, published in the journal Pediatrics.

Government agencies throughout the Portland metro area are gearing up for an array of long-term development planning projects that could impact how race and class play out in housing and education for the next generation.

After 10 years of trying to eliminate racial disparities in Oregon's juvenile justice system, it's unclear how much progress has yet to be made.

The Project Sponsors Council for the Columbia River Crossing Project has released a new plan for cost savings on the multi-billion dollar bridge project.

Attorneys general in 32 states are calling on Vonage to change its marketing practices. The company, one of the nation's largest providers of Internet-based phone service, will refund eligible customers and pay $3 million to the states to resolve concerns about its billing and cancellation policies.

Maj. Gen. Garry C. Dean of the Oregon Air National Guard assumed command of headquarters, 1st Air Force, Air Forces Northern, during a morning ceremony at Tyndall, AFB, Fla., Nov. 12.

For five years, filmmakers Sue Arbuthnot and Richard Wilhelm tracked the lives of residents at the New Columbia housing complex in North Portland.
On Saturday, Nov. 14, their film, "Imagining Home" will be featured at 4 p.m. at the Northwest Film and Video Festival at the Whitsell Auditorium inside the Portland Art Museum.

In a nondescript brick building next to Providence Hospital, Dr. Andy Antoniskis operates a comprehensive, two-week medical detoxification program. For certain drugs – mainly alcohol and opioids – getting medically detoxified can be a matter of life and death ... Many people involved in addiction treatment say there needs to be a paradigm shift in the way we treat drug users in this country and around the globe, and a new state commission is looking at ways to expand treatment options and availability...