Health care giant Optum is closing a family medicine clinic in Northeast Portland, only a few years after buying out the longstanding local primary care operation.

Parents say the decision, which PPS attributes to low enrollment, came with no community engagement. And students are pushing back.

As the federal government axes Grad PLUS loans, the college is trying to keep graduate school accessible for students pursuing at-need education careers.

Today, surging health costs break personal, businesses and governments budgets alike. The father of the state’s largest health plan feels its stewards have lost their way.

Two allies on the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners are now rivals on the campaign trail.

It appears multiple county commissioners are already opposed to potential reductions.

The project comes to a part of town with little access to parks or green space.

Animal rights activists celebrate the move, but the plan allows primate-based research to continue for now.

Multnomah County Commissioner Julia Brim-Edwards today declared her candidacy for county chair, taking on fellow Commissioner Shannon Singleton in a contest to succeed Jessica Vega Pederson, who decided late last year not to seek a second term.

In 2024, Gov. Tina Kotek asked lawmakers for a “moratorium on any substantive benefit changes to PERS for the foreseeable future.” That foreseeable future is now.