Blair Best

For the first time in 100 years, three people on the Portland city council will represent East Portland, ending a decades-long neglect felt by those who live there.

For the first time, Portland has ranked-choice voting for the city council and mayoral races. There are more than 100 candidates in those races combined.

Portland voters elected Shannon Singleton, a social worker representing District 2, and Meghan Moyer, a public policy specialist representing District 1.

Multnomah County officials held a grand opening this past June, but due to unexpected construction delays it remained empty until now.

Families that migrated to Portland from Venezuela said they were promised work opportunities. They were given tents and sleeping bags on arrival instead.

There are currently three family shelters in Multnomah County. The waitlists are more than six months long.

The proposal would add some limits to how tents and tarps are distributed, but critics don't feel it's any significant departure from past policies.

The shelter is low-barrier, trauma-informed and can serve up to 60 people experiencing homelessness.

The Portland Clinic's downtown location has operated for 104 years. But the block outside its doors has become the city's latest open-air fentanyl market.

There were nearly 12,000 clinician-provided abortions in Oregon last year. More than 1,200 were out-of-state patients.