Evening News

The Tea Party Express, a national political bus tour promoting smaller government and deriding the Obama Administration, rolled into Portland today.  They held a rally for lower taxes and against socialism at East Burnside and Twelfth Avenue, echoing hundreds of other ra... Read more

The new Citizen Advisory Board for the Oregon State Hospital met for the first time yesterday. The Board was created by the legislature this summer to oversee the troubled state mental hospital in Salem. The hospital has made the news this month for the death of a patient ... Read more

Although the unemployment rate dropped slightly this month in Oregon, the rate of home foreclosures continues to increase.  Oregon had the second-highest unemployment rate in the nation this summer.  Now the state is down to about tenth place, but job seekers take littl... Read more

A group of residents of the Collins View neighborhood in southwest Portland are up in arms about a planned expansion by Lewis and Clark College.  The College hopes to construct three new apartment-style dorms in a residential neighborhood off Terwilliger Boulevard.  But ... Read more

Today in downtown Portland, a group of protesters gathered to call for the ‘torture memo’ author to be arrested. One protester got arrested simply for standing on the steps handing out leaflets. Security guards started shouting at him at close range, then handcuffed hi... Read more

Tomorrow is weatherization day.  The sierra club along with organizations, business, unions and local officials across the united states will participate in activities to emphasize the benefits of investing in energy efficiency.KBOO’s David NOCK-um-son spoke with Allison... Read more

People gathered outside of the offices of Chase Bank, in downtown Portland this afternoon and KBOO’s Jay Theimeyer was there to hear from the protesters. Kurt Lauer has the story… Read more

Coal mining has begun on a West Virginia mountain that activists have termed the nation’s ‘most endangered mountain’.Coal River Mountain is the tallest peak in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia.But it will quickly become one of the smallest, if the mountaintop r... Read more

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 The US dairy industry is in a state of crisis. The average price of milk is half what it was last year, and dairy farmers around the country are suffering unprecedented losses.  Last Wednesday, Barack Obama signed legislation providing three hundred fifty million dolla... Read more