Portland, Oregon, now has a county prosecutor throwing the book at the city’s famously raucous protesters after his ...

The Thompson Elk Fountain will return to its downtown Portland place of honor in early April, the Portland Parks Foundation ...

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Two federal judges in Oregon made separate rulings prohibiting federal agents from deploying chemical munitions and other projectiles near the Portland ICE building unless there is an imminent threat.

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson stood firm this week in the face of two injunctions restricting federal officers’ use of force outside Portland’s ICE building. The unnamed ...

Using the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot as a backdrop, Gillette’s new play finds a human drama at the heart of a lesser-known chapter in queer history.

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Federal agents have once again been ordered to limit the use of chemical munitions near the Portland ICE facility, this time in a case brought by protesters.

A federal lawsuit is moving forward after DHS declined to settle a claim involving a Portland protester who was tackled twice ...

As the Trump administration works to erase trans people from public life (literally removing the 'T' from LGBT on the government's website about the Stonewall Uprising, a movement to which trans ...

The third and final day of testimony in a hearing over the use of force outside the Portland ICE facility wrapped up with no ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering ways to expand capacity at immigrant detention facilities to accommodate 125,000 people, as well as buying up existing privately owned ...