Protests

More than a thousand Portlanders rallied in downtown on Saturday as part of the national Bans Off Our Bodies movement supporting abortion access.

Thousands of abortion rights supporters are gathering Saturday at rallies across the country in protest of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

Portland’s iconic elk statue will return — and it’ll be on top of a new or repaired fountain — according to a resolution filed by two city commissioners.

In Oregon and Southwest Washington on Tuesday, hundreds of people gathered in Portland, Vancouver, Bend and Eugene in protest of a leaked U.S. Supreme Court opinion suggesting Roe v. Wade could be overturned.

Anti-government public protests initially began over shortages of essentials such as cooking gas, petrol, electricity and milk powder and have spread to every part of the Indian Ocean island nation.

An audit of the Portland Police Bureau’s intelligence gathering practices during the 2020 protests found officers collected information about political activity without providing evidence a crime had been committed.

Under the terms of a plea deal reached by the U.S Department of Justice, the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office and defense attorneys, Malik Muhammad, 25, would serve 10 years in an Oregon prison on charges of attempted murder, unlawful possession of a destructive device, assault and riot, according to court documents.

The man accused of killing a woman and shooting four other people during a February racial justice protest was arraigned Thursday in Multnomah County Circuit Court.

Nearly two months after being charged for his role in a violent Aug. 22 clash between Proud Boys and anti-fascists, Proud Boy Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, 25, was arraigned on Wednesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court.

Lawmakers in Salem are scheduled to vote Thursday on legislation that will roll back restrictions they put in place on the use of tear gas and impact munitions less than a year ago.