Evening News

Normal 0 Despite the economic downturn, there’s some good news for Oregon companies that do good. Terry Kellogg, CEO of One Percent for the Planet, says the last two years of economic meltdown have actually been the best he’s seen when it comes to companies wanting to ... Read more

Normal 0 Portland’s Independent Police Review commission submitted their annual report at City Hall last night. The independent police review system has undergone significant changes over the last month, after City Auditor Lavonne Griffin-Valade presented a report ... Read more

Normal 0  This week’s high-level ministerial meeting at the United Nations will discuss development assistance for the rights and needs of women with disabilities. KBOO Radio’s Sarika Mehta spoke with Shantha Rau Barriga from Human Rights Watch. Read more

Normal 0 Around fifty people protested outside of an O-H-S-U facility in Hillsboro today, drawing attention the center’s use of primates in drug research. The center has been criticized for several citations it received for violating the animal welfare act.    KBOO’s Ev... Read more

Normal 0 On the evening of Friday, June twenty-fifthth, local citizens of Clatsop County, attended a hearing to debate the building of a One-hundred and twenty mile long Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) pipeline here in the state of Oregon.  The proposed pipeline would trave... Read more

Normal 0 Public meetings were held this past Saturday morning at the Oregon Convention Center organized by "America Speaks." The group says it is gathering ideas about how to reduce the nation's future budget deficits. Similar meetings were held across the country to di... Read more

Normal 0 In the nineteen-nineties, environmental activists chained themselves to trees and loggers held mock funerals for the timber industry. Yet today much unheard about the reasons for their protests. This weekend marks twenty years since the northern spotted owl was ... Read more

The Oregon Food Bank network is hosting its twenty-third annual Waterfront Blues Festival here in Portland. This year’s goal is to receive at least six hundred thousand dollars in cash and canned goods to meet the record demands for emergency food. KBOO’s Sarika Mehta brings... Read more

Around fifty people protested outside of an OHSU facility in Hillsboro today, drawing attention the center’s use of primates in drug research. The center has been criticized for several citations it received for violating the animal welfare act. Read more

Normal 0 Normal 0 The Oregon Food Bank network is hosting its twenty-third annual Waterfront Blues Festival here in Portland. This year’s goal is to receive at least six hundred thousand dollars in cash and canned goods to meet the record demands for emerge... Read more