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Most Gig Workers Paid Sick Leave Under New Seattle Law
The measure expands pandemic-era protections and strengthens labor rights for app-based workers.
Seattle Audubon Changes Name, Severing Tie to Slave Owner
James Audubon, a naturalist known for his watercolor paintings of birds, also owned, sold and bought enslaved African Americans through his general store in Kentucky and was a staunch opponent of abolition.
Idaho Law Could Criminalize Helping Minors Get Abortions
The measure would create a new crime of “abortion trafficking,” punishable by up to five years in prison, barring adults from obtaining abortion pills and “recruiting, harboring, or transporting" a pregnant minor.
Legislative BIPOC Caucus Announces 2023 Priorities
In a historic milestone for the state, this is the most diverse Legislature in Oregon history, with 20 BIPOC legislators serving this session.
Mask Requirements in Healthcare Settings Lifting April 3
Some health care settings may decide to continue requiring masks even after the statewide requirement is lifted. ...
OHCS Applauds Gov. Kotek’s Signing of HBs 2001 and 5019 to Address Housing Needs
Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) applauds Gov.Tina Kotek who today signed bipartisan legislation addressing the state’s...
County Distributes $5 Million in Grants to Community-Based Organizations
Awards will help 13 community-based organizations fund capital improvements to better serve historically marginalized...
Call for Submissions: Play Scripts, Web Series, Film Shorts, Features & Documentaries
Deadline for submissions to the 2023 Pacific Northwest Multi-Cultural Readers Series & Film Festival extended to April 8 ...
Motorcycle Lane Filtering Law Passes Oregon Senate
SB 422 will allow motorcyclists to avoid dangers of stop-and-go traffic under certain conditions ...
Man charged with murder in deaths of missing mom, girl
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — The man named as a person of interest in the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old daughter was charged with two counts of murder in their deaths, police in Washington state said Friday. Detectives from the Vancouver Police Department booked...
52 years after capture, orca Lolita may return to Pacific
MIAMI (AP) — More than 50 years after the orca known as Lolita was captured for public display, plans are in place to return her from the Miami Seaquarium to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest, where a nearly century-old, endangered killer whale believed to be her mother still swims. ...
Pop, Gasol, Hammon, Parker, Nowitzki, Wade heading to Hall
Tony Parker and Pau Gasol played for him. Becky Hammon coached alongside him. Dirk Nowitzki and Dwyane Wade waged battles against him. He is Gregg Popovich. And he, finally, is a Hall of Famer. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame made it official...
MLB The Show breaks barrier with Negro League players
LOS ANGELES (AP) — MLB The Show has broken a video game barrier: For the first time, the franchise will insert some of the greatest Negro League players — from Satchel Paige to Jackie Robinson — into the 2023 edition of the game as playable characters. Video gamers are now able...
Oregon Should Reject Racist Roots, Restore Voting Rights For People in Prisons
Blocking people with felony convictions from voting started in the Jim Crow era as an intentional strategy to keep Black people from voting ...
Celebrating 196 Years of The Black Press
It was on March 17, 1827, at a meeting of “Freed Negroes” in New York City, that Samuel Cornish, a Presbyterian minister, and John Russwurn, the first Negro college graduate in the United States, established the negro newspaper. ...
DEQ Announces Suspension of Oregon’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Program
The state’s popular incentive for drivers to switch to electric vehicles is scheduled to pause in May ...
FHA Makes Housing More Affordable for 850,000 Borrowers
Savings tied to median market home prices ...
Minneapolis and state agree to revamp policing post-Floyd
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The city of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights signed a “court-enforceable settlement agreement” Friday to revamp policing in the city where George Floyd was murdered by an officer nearly three years ago. The agency issued a blistering...
Developer drops land purchase in historically Black town
EATONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A developer on Friday ended plans to purchase a 100-acre (39-hectare) property from the local school system in a historically Black town in Florida following a public outcry that the deal threatened the cultural heritage of the community made famous by Harlem Renaissance...
North Dakota governor vetoes transgender pronouns bill
North Dakota's Republican governor vetoed a bill that would generally prohibit public schools teachers and staff from referring to transgender students by pronouns other than those reflecting the sex assigned to them at birth. The state Senate voted 37-9 to override the veto Thursday...
Baldwin codefendant gets 6 months probation on gun charge
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A codefendant in the case against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on a movie set in New Mexico was convicted Friday of unsafe handling of a firearm and sentenced to six months of probation. Safety coordinator and assistant...
Gwyneth Paltrow won her ski trial. Here's how it played out
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — When two skiers collided on a beginner run at an upscale Utah ski resort in 2016, no one could foresee that seven years later, the crash would become the subject of a closely watched celebrity trial. But Gwyneth Paltrow’s live-streamed trial over her...
Review: Boygenius is cohesive and powerful in 'The Record'
“The Record” by Boygenius (Interscope) The internet's favorite indie girls welcome you into the brilliant, colorful world of Boygenius, again. The supergroup, consisting of best friends Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, formed and released their...
Lanterns and crescents: more retailers court Ramadan buyers
With her 3-year-old daughter sitting inside a red Target shopping cart, Aya Khalil looked through the aisles with...
Russia-Ukraine war: Will there be a spring counteroffensive?
Europe’s biggest armed conflict since World War II is poised to enter a new phase in the coming weeks. ...
Doomsday plot? After 3 years, slain kids' mom to stand trial
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — It has been more than three years since police announced that two kids were missing from a...
Harris peeks at peppers on farm with climate change in mind
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday traveled down a dirt road to tour a farm outside...
Israelis still protest legal overhaul despite suspension
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against a controversial plan to...
Pope Francis leaves hospital; 'Still alive,' he quips
ROME (AP) — A chipper-sounding Pope Francis was discharged Saturday from the Rome hospital where he was treated...
Photos from The Skanner Foundation's 37th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast.
