Evening News

Portland’s Haitian-American community has organized several fundraising vigils already, to raise funds for the devastated island country.  After a 7.0 earthquake hit the island of Haiti earlier this week, humanitarian aid organizations have scrambled to send relief workers ... Read more

Yesterday, two groundbreaking black fighter pilots who flew in World War Two spoke at Portland Community College’s Cascade Campus. The two pilots were members of the famous Tuskegee [tus-KEE-gee] Airmen, the first African Americans to fly fighter planes in combat.  Lieute... Read more

Yesterday, we heard from an Oregon activist who spoke of her experience protesting the apartheid Wall in Palestine.  Today, KBOO reporter Isobel Charle speaks with another Oregon activist who is currently based in Jerusalem. Read more

 More than eighty-six hundred people over the age of fifty in oregon took part in a teleconference sharing stories and asking questions about the effects of ballot measures 66 and 67 on their paychecks, job prospects and state government services.The oregon league of women ... Read more

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KBOO reporter Isobel Charle spoke with an Oregon activist volunteering in the West Bank in solidarity with Palestinians against Israel’s apartheid wall. Read more

   Monday’s You Tube coverage of the federal same-sex marriage case was put hold on just before the start of the trial. Some legal experts say that an emergency “stay” order is unusual in a non-criminal case such as this one. This would have been one of the first federal ... Read more

       News accounts over the past years have told of one suicide after another among young veterans and members of the military.  Now, the Department of Veterans affairs has some hard data to go with this anecdotal evidence. It has announced that the suicide rate amo... Read more

    Several Oregonians who are apart of a march and rally in support of the people of Gaza.   Read more

  In Black Mesa, Arizona, the indigenous hopi and navaho nations are celebrating a victory. The U.S. Department of Interior has denied Peabody Western Coal Company the right to expand its operations in the area. The decision came in response to the latest of several appeal... Read more