With a new historical webpage, University of Washington scholars are shining a bright light on one of the darkest chapters of Washington history – the days when the Ku Klux Klan was a force in the state. It was a brief era when the Klan had tens of thousands of members ...

What's happening for you in Portland this week? Read here a day-by-day diary of free community events to fill your spare time. For a full calendar please click on "Read the complete article" below ….

What's happening for you in Seattle this week? Read here a day-by-day diary of free community events to fill your spare time. For a full calendar please click on "Read the complete article" below ….

From the very beginning, some observers say, Jefferson High School's Johnson Young Men's Academy seemed set up to fail. Enrollment never made it above 60 students, crippling the district's ability to provide enough teachers for the small all-boys academy ...

For Leslie Storm, the effects of the current financial crisis can be heard in her office almost every day — over the last two months, the suicide prevention line she helps run has seen a 55 percent increase in call volume....

Attorneys for four African American men who were awarded a multimillion dollar racial discrimination suit in August were back in court Monday – this time on the defense. Asbury Automotive is appealing the court's original ruling, saying the $19.5 million judgment against them was excessive ...

Gentrification Listening Project .... Kids' Basketball Camps ... Roundtable on Marriage Ban ....

North Portland Library on 512 N. Killingsworth St. is currently scheduling young readers to participate in their twice monthly Read to the Dogs program. It's just what it sounds like – a very friendly, trained and certified companion dog sits down next to a young person and listens as the kid reads out loud from his or her favorite book. It's a good way to improve reading skills of all kinds with a supportive, special friend ....

The African American Outdoor Society celebrated a year of fantastic events with a dinner at the Audubon Society headquarters in Forest Park. Left to right, Lisa Fisher, Annmarie Rainford, Ellecia and Elliot Williams and their son and daughter, Cameron, 4, and Eva, 6, meet Finnegan the peregrine falcon, with his handler, Jennifer Parks.
Photo by Julie Keefe