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Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 15 December 2022

Tacoma sheriff Ed Troyer (Photo via Twitter)

Prosecutors accused Troyer of lying when he called an emergency dispatcher, saying four times that Sedrick Altheimer, a Black newspaper carrier, was threatening to kill him.

Details: Written by Saundra Sorenson; Published: 15 December 2022

The Horizon Enterprise Building, located at 433 NW 4th Ave., is set to open in June 2023.

Horizon Enterprise Building to offer space, equipment, community as “international beacon of BIPOC creativity.”

Details: Written by By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press; Published: 14 December 2022

Governor Kate Brown

Brown, a Democrat with less than a month remaining in office, said she was using her executive clemency powers to commute the sentences and that her order will take effect on Wednesday.

Details: Written by By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press; Published: 12 December 2022

(AP Photo/Claire Rush, File)

In her resignation letter, Scroggin said misinformation and disinformation “have made the work of administering elections extremely challenging.”

Details: Written by ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press; Published: 12 December 2022

Twenty-seven Black people, former residents or descendants of former residents of the Albina neighborhood, are suing Portland

Details: Written by Brittany Gadbury Wade, Black Cultural Library Assistant, North Portland Library; Published: 09 December 2022

Brittany Gadbury Wade, Black Cultural Library Assistant, North Portland Library

For the past 20 years, North Portland Library has been hosting a community Kwanzaa event. After a two-year pause of in-person events, it's back.

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 09 December 2022

4 clear plastic bags with suspected dried psilocybin mushrooms on a black metal shelf (Photo/PPB)

Witnesses say customers lined up around the block after a national story broke on the local business

about-marijuana

Details: Written by By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press; Published: 08 December 2022

(Shaun Hall/Grants Pass Daily Courier via AP, File)

So far this year, police have seized over 105 tons of illegally grown marijuana in Oregon. The grows use massive amounts of water in drought-stricken areas, contaminate the environment and employ migrant laborers who live in squalid conditions.

Details: Written by Saundra Sorenson; Published: 07 December 2022

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore)

End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act seeks to return single-family housing stock to families.

Details: Written by By GILLIAN FLACCUS and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press; Published: 06 December 2022

(Photo/ Thomas Def)

A federal judge delivered an initial victory to proponents of a sweeping gun-control measure to take effect this week while giving law enforcement more time to set up a system for permits