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Where to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride in Portland this weekend
Although June is official Pride Month, Portland’s major Pride festivities are happening in July for the second year. Read online: https://www.koin.com/entertainment-news/where-how-to-celebrate-lgbtq-pride-in-portland-weekend/
Introducing Be Well Washington: Fostering Health and Wellness
The Washington State Department of Health is encouraging everyone to live their BEST life. They've launched 'BE WELL WA,' an initiative designed to help all Washingtonians achieve a well-rounded, healthy lifestyle. "We want individuals to reimagine what wellness looks like,” said Umair A. Shah, MD, MPH, Secretary of Health. “Often...
Podcast: In the Shed #23 with guest co-host Maria Sipin
Maria Sipin joined me in the shed this week (Eva Frazier is out of town). Maria is a transportation planner and community organizer with a long and impressive resume as a volunteer and agency staffer. She’s currently the campaign manager for Portland City Council D4 (W/Sellwood) candidate Mitch Green, and in the past she’s been a planner at Oregon Department of Transportation, has worked at Safe Routes National Partnership, was on the Portland Clean Energy Fund Community Advisory Committee, and recently worked on the campaign to get participatory budgeting on the ballot in Portland.
Activist Ammon Bundy declares bankruptcy
Ammon Bundy, the far-right activist who led the takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon, has declared bankruptcy after loss in a defamation suit against an Idaho hospital last year required him to pay over $50 million in damages.
Despite fears, study finds little link between Oregon's Measure 110 and decline in proactive policing
PORTLAND, Ore. — In a little more than a month, Oregon's experiment with decriminalization of hard drugs comes to an end. That portion of Measure 110, passed by voters in 2020, has received the lion's share of the blame for a perceived shift slide lawlessness in the state, particularly in Portland. But a new report suggests that this wasn't necessarily the case.
Deadly weekend of 5 killings puts Portland police, city on alert
Asher Ethan Mendes came into the world as his mother’s miracle baby and left it on what became the year’s deadliest weekend of violence in Portland, spurring a fresh round of alarm at the city’s drumbeat of killings. The public nature of Mendes’ fatal shooting last Friday...
‘Baby Precious’ killer who left newborn daughter in recycling bin gets 4 years in prison
A man who disposed of his newborn daughter in a commercial recycling bin — sparking a citywide outcry and decade-long mystery until DNA evidence surfaced — was sentenced Friday to four years in prison. Alnath O. Oliver, 53, pleaded guilty to a single count of criminally negligent homicide...
Woman, accomplice charged in Idaho campground murder
This story was originally published on July 19 on KTVB.COMCANYON COUNTY — Melissa Fay Calumpit and Rosalie Lynn Morris were charged Friday with two counts of first-degree murder for the homicide of Travis Haywood Calumpit. Calumpit was charged with murder in the first degree and destruction, alteration, or concealment of evidence.
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