On Dec. 1, thousands of people will observe Worlds AIDS Day as a reminder that the disease infects a new person every 9.5 minutes. African Americans are disproportionately affected by the fatal disease, making up more than half of new cases across the United States. Black women are increasingly the face of what was once primarily a White gay man's disease. Most women get the disease from heterosexual contact with heterosexual men or through sharing needles when injecting drugs. In the Portland area, there will be a number of events related to World AIDS Day. Listed below are just a few events. For the full listing, click here.

Sitting down to a bounty of collard greens, fresh bread and organic chicken, residents of Seattle's Central District had much to be thankful for on a recent autumn evening. The diners—reflecting a wide diversity of ages, faiths and ethnicities—were celebrating a successful harvest of crops grown on the Clean Greens farm in Duvall.

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.