Evening News

A disabled Portlander has started a new website that rates Portland businesses based on their accessibility.KBOO's Beth Crawford spoke today to Caitlin Wood, the creator of where's-lulu-dot-com. Read more

The debate over the Bush Administration's 700 Billion dollar bail-out plan reached a new level on Capital Hill today.Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulsen sat in front of the Senate Banking committee asking for the authority to institute what is bec... Read more

Protesters and supporters gathered outside of the Portland Day Labor Center at NE Everett and Martin Luther King Boulevard today. KBOO reporters Honna Veerkamp and Trillium Shannon were there, and filed this report: Read more

"A million doors for peace" was an event that took place this past weekend around the country, in which peace activists aimed to knock on one million doors as a peace action.Instead of another big protests, the coalition of groups that organized the event decided to get pea... Read more

Troy Anthony Davis is scheduled to be executed tomorrow in Georgia for the murder of a police officer in 1989.But his lawyers, and thousands of supporters, including the Pope, Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu and the European Union, contend that Davis is innocent.They say that he... Read more

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was scheduled to be in Portland today to help Republican Senator Gordon Smith raise money for his campaign – but apparently didn’t show up.A number of local groups protested outside – including labor unions and fair trade advocates.... Read more

The Non-Violent Focus has shifted among the Burmese Monks whose safrron Revolution was squashed one year ago. A new generation of monks believe passive resistance is no longer a viable response and have been stockpiling guns in anticipation of further government oppression.... Read more

A number of Oregon native American communities and environmental groups held a 'Day of Action against Dams' today in downtown Portland.Several activists hung a banner from the I-84 bridge calling for the removal of a number of dams from the Columbia River.KBOO's Avery Welki... Read more

Portland's Independent Police Review Board, or I-P-R, has come out with a report applauding its conduct in 2007.But Dan Handelman, of Portland Copwatch, claims that the report manipulates statistics and misuses facts to create a false image of the I-P-R  Read more

To mark the seventh anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 attacks last week, U-S Congressman Dennis Kucinich presented tens of thousands of petitions to Congress, calling for the impeachment of Dick Cheney, George Bush, and other top administration officials.Kucinich had ... Read more