Four scholarships at the University of Oregon are under fire from the Equal Protection Project, a conservative legal group that is challenging universities nationwide for considering race or gender when issuing such awards..

The new Department of Government Efficiency has severely cut funding to the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the impact, as expected, is hitting Oregon..

Just like the Crystal Ballroom has a downstairs, smaller venue Lola’s Room, Helium Comedy Club has launched a new performance space: The Neon Room..

By Tyler Brown

Three Portland city councilors are mulling a proposal to increase the controversial climate tax on large retailers from 1% to 1.33% and using the revenue from that delta to plug the city’s looming budget hole of around $60 million..

By Andrew Jankowski

For decades, urbanites driving Interstate 5 between Portland and Seattle had two reliable means of staying awake: the free coffee at Washington state rest areas, and a large billboard from which Uncle Sam delivered messages guaranteed to angry up the blood..

Two recently elected members of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners proposed new rules this week to diminish the vast authority of the county chair..

<b>Staffer:</b> Anna Zusman.

<b>Staffer:</b> Anna Zusman.

By Rachel Saslow

When the final school bell sounds this spring, students will head to summer camps and swimming pools—and thousands of school employees will begin collecting unemployment checks..

By WW Staff

While springtime for most Portlanders means cherry blossoms and the first hints of sunshine, for interest groups funded by the city, it’s panic time as the City Council prepares to slash its way out of a $90 million budget hole..

Trainers at Oregon Health & Science University’s fitness center sent a letter to the human resources department recently, saying they had long been in the “practice of receiving gifts of monetary value” from clients “with no negative action taken by management.”.

By Nigel Jaquiss

<b>OHSU TRAINERS ALLEGE SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT:</b> Trainers at Oregon Health & Science University’s fitness center sent a letter to the human resources department recently, saying they had long been in the “practice of receiving gifts of monetary value” from clients “with no negative action taken by management.” They sent the letter because OHSU is taking disciplinary action against one of their own, the letter says: a trainer named Hananiah Mays, who happens to be Black and a union organizer.

In addition to their wish to include commercial space in affordable housing projects without financial penalty, developers say some basic parameters of Oregon’s prevailing wage law are slowing housing production..

By Nigel Jaquiss

ASTORIA, Ore.

For years, animal rights activists have argued that Oregon Health & Science University should shutter its primate center—a de facto monkey ranch bounded by Beaverton subdivisions—because using primates for medical research is archaic, unnecessary and cruel..

Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez has asked his counterpart in Washington County to handle the prosecution of two people who allegedly vandalized and tried to break into the Society Hotel.

By Andrew Jankowski

The Oregon Department of Education is shutting down five instructional projects after the U.S.

In its second year back after a strategic hiatus, Fertile Ground—the festival of new works started by Portland Area Theatre Alliance in 2009—is living in the moment, which means this year’s offerings serve up everything from queer joy to timely drama in plays, musicals, dance and movement and performance art.