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Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 17 July 2014

Portland and Vancouver Parks are offering free activities for children, teens and adults this summer

Details: Written by Lisa Loving; Published: 17 July 2014

Activists say jobs are not posted and just a handful of administrators are people of color

Details: Written by The Associated Press; Published: 16 July 2014

Holly Grigsby and her boyfriend killed two people in Everett, Washington before heading south and killing two more people in Oregon and California

Details: Written by Phuong Le, Matthew Brown, Associated Press; Published: 16 July 2014

Since 2008 derailments of oil trains in the U.S. and Canada have seen the 70,000-gallon tank cars break open and ignite on multiple occasions, resulting in huge fireballs. A train carrying North Dakota crude in DOT-111s crashed in a Quebec town last summer, killing 47 people.

Details: Written by Helen Silvis; Published: 16 July 2014

A splash pad fountain; a new playground with springy astroturf; and a circular walkway around a central lawn all make the park the perfect place to picnic

Details: Written by Helen Silvis; Published: 11 July 2014

Youth will work on projects over the summer and install a peace pole in each of the four focus neighborhoods in North, Northeast and East Multnomah County