McKay Elementary in Beaverton may close this fall with teachers and many parents supporting a plan to shift students to Greenway and the new Raleigh Hills campus.

Two long‑standing Chinese restaurants in Portland’s Old Town Chinatown are keeping their doors open with small grants, neon plans and neighborhood projects.

Advocates say Multnomah County kept emergency warming centers closed as cold, wet weather neared, leaving outreach teams scrambling and reigniting questions about activation rules.

Parents in Portland pushed back after officials floated closing a 60‑year‑old high school, arguing a single closure won’t fix deep funding problems.

Portland’s shift from neighborhood fundraisers to a districtwide foundation has coincided with a steep fall in donations, forcing the Fund for PPS to stretch scarce dollars amid deep budget pressure.

Portland Public Schools told families that Metropolitan Learning Center will phase out its high school program and reconfigure as a K‑8 campus amid low enrollment and funding limits.

Portland’s alternative weekly has returned to a monthly print edition after new owner Noisy Creek invested in staff, higher wages and a ticketing-driven business plan.

An emergency warming shelter opened at The Father’s Heart in Oregon City Monday night; volunteers were asked to sign up and dinner was offered to arriving guests.

A new ECOnorthwest tally pegs Portland’s FY2024 homeless‑services spending at $724 million — but comparing cities remains messy because of different accounting, populations and program mixes.

Feed the Mass bought Old Town's Nourish Building and plans a grocery, programming space and its headquarters — a step to scale food-rescue and job training in the neighborhood.

Roseburg will cut roughly 146 jobs at its Riddle plywood plant as specialty plywood shifts to Coquille; affected workers will receive 60 days' pay and health coverage.

A Guatemalan mother arrested on her way to work near Woodburn is detained in Tacoma while pursuing a U visa and appealing a deportation order.

A deleted TikTok by a Portland mother saying she'd rather kill her children than face ICE has sparked outrage, reports to CPS and renewed fears about enforcement.