For Nearly a Year, Teenagers Have Been Robbing Portland Dispensaries. Then Somebody Shot a Budtender.

In one year, Portland-area cannabis shops reported more than half a million dollars stolen.

Tess Riski
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A bronze bust of York, an enslaved member of the Corps of Discovery, has drawn visitors to Mount Tabor since it was anonymously installed last month. The debate over how history is portrayed is also occurring in Portland's classrooms. (Justin Yau)

A Portland Parent Found Her Daughter’s Textbook Racist. Her Teacher Has a Contract That Says He Could Use It Anyway.

As Danielle Blake was helping her 12-year-old daughter with her homework, she noticed that the texts distorted the history of slavery and the suffering of Indigenous peoples during colonization.

A Company That Had a Massive Scrapyard Fire in 2018 Is About to Get a New State Permit a Few Miles Down the Road

The new location? Nine miles west at the northwest edge of St. Johns.

Face Masks Aren’t Going Out of Style. Maybe You Should Wear Two.

How to wear a mask: The latest in a WW series, "You're Doing It Wrong."

Rukaiyah Adams (Christine Dong)

Murmurs: Turmoil Over Cops at Transition Projects

In other news: Rumblings in the next governor's race.

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A Company That Had a Massive Scrapyard Fire in 2018 Is About to Get a New State Permit a Few Miles Down the Road

Time Lapsed Between Land Purchase and Groundbreaking for a Portland Housing Development? 1,483 Days

For Nearly a Year, Teenagers Have Been Robbing Portland Dispensaries. Then Somebody Shot a Budtender.

Landowners Planning to Redevelop a Manufactured Home Park Were Required to Tell Lots of People—Just Not the Residents

A Quarter of Oregonians Reject Vaccines. Even More Decline to Wear Masks.

Court Records Show Most of the Defendants Charged With Raiding Weed Shops Are Teenagers

A Portland Parent Found Her Daughter’s Textbook Racist. Her Teacher Has a Contract That Says He Could Use It Anyway.

Murmurs: Turmoil Over Cops at Transition Projects

Oregon Could Soon Become the Second State to Legalize Composting Human Remains

Face Masks Aren’t Going Out of Style. Maybe You Should Wear Two.

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