Government agencies throughout the Portland metro area are gearing up for an array of long-term development planning projects that could impact how race and class play out in housing and education for the next generation.

After 10 years of trying to eliminate racial disparities in Oregon's juvenile justice system, it's unclear how much progress has yet to be made.

The Project Sponsors Council for the Columbia River Crossing Project has released a new plan for cost savings on the multi-billion dollar bridge project.

Attorneys general in 32 states are calling on Vonage to change its marketing practices. The company, one of the nation's largest providers of Internet-based phone service, will refund eligible customers and pay $3 million to the states to resolve concerns about its billing and cancellation policies.

Maj. Gen. Garry C. Dean of the Oregon Air National Guard assumed command of headquarters, 1st Air Force, Air Forces Northern, during a morning ceremony at Tyndall, AFB, Fla., Nov. 12.

For five years, filmmakers Sue Arbuthnot and Richard Wilhelm tracked the lives of residents at the New Columbia housing complex in North Portland.
On Saturday, Nov. 14, their film, "Imagining Home" will be featured at 4 p.m. at the Northwest Film and Video Festival at the Whitsell Auditorium inside the Portland Art Museum.

In a nondescript brick building next to Providence Hospital, Dr. Andy Antoniskis operates a comprehensive, two-week medical detoxification program. For certain drugs – mainly alcohol and opioids – getting medically detoxified can be a matter of life and death ... Many people involved in addiction treatment say there needs to be a paradigm shift in the way we treat drug users in this country and around the globe, and a new state commission is looking at ways to expand treatment options and availability...

Kenyan-born Peter Kithene understood tragedy by age 12. He lost both of his parents, as well as six siblings, leaving him to care for his remaining younger sister and two brothers. After witnessing these deaths – which were caused by a lack of treatment for even minor illnesses – Kithene was later inspired to found Mama Maria Kenya.

Willamette University law professor Robin Morris Collin will deliver the keynote address at The Skanner News 24th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, from 8:30am-10:30am, at the Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Portland.

The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has fined Providence Health Plans $30,000 for mishandling nearly 7,000 claims.