Evening News

In a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that people who sign political petitions in an attempt to change public laws do not have a preemptive right to keep their identity secret.   KBOO spoke with David Ammon, communications director for the Washington S... Read more

Normal 0 The Northwest Service Academy has just been informed that they had their funding cut for the first time after sixteen years of funding. Without funding from AmeriCorps, NWSA will not be able to provide support to critical environmental work in western Oreg... Read more

The Northwest Service Academy has just been informed that they had their funding cut for the first time after sixteen years of funding. Without funding from AmeriCorps, N-W-S-A will not be ablet o provide support to critical environmental work in western Oregon and Southwes... Read more

Portland Mayor Sam Adams and members of the Portland Police Gang Enforcement Team held a press conference yesterday on recent shootings in the area that they say are gang-related. Four people have been shot in the last week, two of them killed, in what police claim is gang-... Read more

Africa Bridge is a rural economic development organization with an emphasis on assisting vulnerable children and their families in Tanzania by bridging the gap between African culture and western culture. KBOO’s James Dixon brings us the story… Read more

The United States Social Forum kicked off today in Detroit, Michigan. The theme of the forum is "Another world is possible, another US is necessary, and another Detroit is underway."  Tens of thousands of participants arrived from all over the world to take part in the large... Read more

On Saturday about seventy-five to one-hundred protestors and anarchists marched from the westside waterfront throughout downtown Portland. The protestors then marched to the Justice Center to show support for Portland activists who were arrested yesterday. Read more

Faced with the worst environmental disaster in US history, many people in the Gulf region have adopted a fatalistic attitude. But community organizer Malik Rahim, who pulled together relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina, says this is no time for despair. Instead, he has co... Read more

There was a Queer Patrol meeting held at the Q Center located at 4115 N. Mississippi Avenue in response to a recent number of gay bashings.  Members of the queer community and friends gathered to do something about by organinzing a Queer Patrol.  The meetings are on-going a... Read more

Normal 0 More than five hundred summer meal sites across Oregon serve neighborhoods where at least half the families have incomes below the federal poverty level and this summer, with a record number of Oregonians receiving public assistance, they expect to be busy. Summ... Read more