Tense negotiations at the final meeting on a climate-related loss and damages fund — an international fund to help poor countries hit hard by a warming planet — ended Saturday in Abu Dhabi, with participants agreeing that the World Bank would temporarily oversee the fund for the next four years. The U.S. and several developing countries expressed disappointment in the draft agreement, which will be sent for global leaders to sign at the COP28 climate conference, which begins in Dubai in late November

Oregon Housing and Community Services has announced that Margaret Harris, Erin Meechan, and Kirsty Rodrigues are newly appointed to serve on the  Oregon Housing Stability Council. The council works to establish OHCS' strategic direction to meet the housing and services needs of low- and moderate-income Oregonians, as well as reviews and sets policy for the development and financing of affordable housing in the state

Here is a look at law enforcement policies on moving vehicles:

U.S. District Judge Michael McShane says indigent defendants are essentially being locked up and deprived of a voice simply because they are too poor to hire their own lawyer.

PAM’s major gifts director is working to give artists of color a permanent home. 

U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, a quirky but deeply respected figure in Oregon politics for decades, has decided not to seek reelection after 27 years in Congress

At issue in the Alabama case was whether the power of Black voters was diluted by dividing them into districts where white voters dominate.

Evers stood as a beacon of courage against the entrenched racism of the segregated South. He waged a tireless battle against the oppressive Jim Crow laws, championed the desegregation of education, and boldly probed into the horrific Emmett Till lynching.