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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested two more asylum seekers outside Portland Immigration Court this morning, bringing the total arrests in the past week to four.

Federal immigration lawyers disclosed the woman’s location Tuesday afternoon in response to U.S. District Court Judge Amy Baggio.

In a federal legal filing, attorneys say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a woman from Mexico outside her asylum hearing Monday morning in downtown Portland.

The 12-person jury found that Wilson’s workplace was racially hostile and the city’s hiring process for a 2023 fire inspector specialist position was skewed against Wilson. But it stopped short of finding that the bureau intentionally blocked him from advancement because of his race.

Three more families are suing over the June 2024 malfunction of the AtmosFEAR pendulum ride.

Polling conducted last month on behalf of business interests shows more than two-thirds of Portland voters would support a ballot measure requiring the city to maintain a police force at the same scale as other large U.S. cities.

Nearly half of Oregon Humanities' $2.46 million budget in 2024 came from the National Endowment for the Humanities—and therein lies the rub.

Preschools are not included in the definition of “school” when determining proximity-related drug charges. Rep. Tawna Sanchez hopes to change that.

The ACLU of Oregon and 16 other organizations want the city to investigate what they call “retaliatory” visits by police officers to events hosted by two city councilors.

Dan Handelman, a police accountability advocate whose meticulous documentation and public testimony shaped Portland’s approach to public safety reform for over three decades, died Wednesday after suffering a stroke. He was 60.

Four scholarships at the University of Oregon are under fire from the Equal Protection Project, a conservative legal group.