11-02-2024  4:30 am   •   PDX and SEA Weather

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Photo by Christen McCurdy 

After 10 years with the city and decades as a ‘community mom,’ Antoinette Edwards is retiring to ‘be still for a while’

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Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church (Photo by Saundra Sorensen) 

The current preservation movement is about shifting focus to the preservation of cultural heritage sites, and Black history advocates have reason to hope this means better protection in historically African American neighborhoods

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(Photo courtesy TriMet) 

Upgrades will allow the line to run at regular speeds during higher temperatures

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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File) 

Gov. Kate Brown said Monday that she's ready to use her executive power to lower carbon emissions following a nine-day Republican walkout that derailed landmark climate legislation and embroiled the state in a political crisis pitting liberal cities against rural residents.

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Portland artists Kayin Talton Davis and Cleo Davis 

This fall, five bright red obelisks, each measuring seven feet tall, will appear along Alberta between 11th and 24th avenues

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Oregon Department of Forestry firefighters douse a slash pile during an annual interagency training exercise east of Sweet Home, Ore.(Mark Ylen/Albany Democrat-Herald via AP) 

Seattle upgrades community center air filtration systems, Multnomah County weighs cost of upgrades moving forward.

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Oregon is the only state in the country that allows for convictions via non-unanimous juries in criminal felony cases.

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Free agency opened Sunday with nearly $3 billion in deals getting struck in the opening hours

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New laws passed in the last hours of the session include: paid medical and family leave, 150 million for affordable housing and more...

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Bill failed to muster 16 votes needed from Democrats

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