Evening News

Defense secretary Robert Gates is calling for a rapid increase in spending on attack drone planes for use in Iraq, Afghanistan and Eastern Pakistan. This plan has raised the ire of many in the peace community due to the drone’s inconsistent results and bad record of civilian... Read more

The U.S. House of Representatives passes the “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” on Thursday, bringing Congress a step closer to federal Food and Drug Administration regulation of tobacco products.  This week, a federal tobacco tax hike of 62-cents per pack w... Read more

About 200 protesters rallied on Sunday at Waterfront Park against a proposed four and a half billion dollar bridge over the Columbia River. Read more

There was ahearing in Salem on Friday on a new bill that would regulate how children in foster care can be prescribed drugs like ritalin [RIT-a-lin] and prozac. Representatives Tina Kotek [KO-tek] of Portland and Carolyn Tomei [toe-MAY] of Salem are co-sponsoring the bill. ... Read more

half the world’s seven thousand languages are under severe threat of extinction, and along with them the cultures they represent. Every two weeks, the last fluent speaker of a native language dies, when this happens, their language dies with them and is lost forever.   Withi... Read more

The spotted owl’s need for old-growth forest has been at the center of long-standing battles about logging in the Northwest. Now there’s a new development in the controversy. The Obama administration has decided not to defend the Bush administration's decision to cut protect... Read more

Students at LEP (Leap) High School in Portland have been fighting to keep their school open, after the school’s Charter was revoked by the school board on Monday. School administrators say the numbers presented by the Board were outdated, and a recent fundraising campaign h... Read more

The Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard Committee is trying to name a portland street after Chavez. has been holding hearings aboutn renaming Grand St, Broadway, and Thirty Ninth Avenue. This week City council held a hearing about the possibility of renaming Broadway. Grand and Thirt... Read more

A national group advocating for healthcare reform says U.S. Census numbers don’t tell the whole story about those who are uninsured. Families USA is releasing more specific data by state of how many people (under age 65) have gone without health insurance for at least part o... Read more

Today marks the birthday of Cesar Chavez, the founder of the United Farmworkers in the U-S. In Portland, several groups have come together to mark the occasion with teach-ins, workshops and a march through downtown Portland today. Read more