A prominent low-income housing developer took more than a year to fix potentially dangerous code violations at its Milepost 5 building, even after receiving millions in public funds to improve living ...

This is a follow-up to an Oct. 30 article about homelessness in Corvallis. Corvallis officials take heat from local advocates, but city councilors promise they want to do more to address homelessness.

For Jermaine, one of his greatest values is hard work. Having sold newspapers with Street Roots since it was on Northwest Davis Street, he takes pride in the relationships he has cultivated and the ...

Proposed alcohol ban opens larger debate on street drinking By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer City Commissioner Amanda Fritz’s office and the Office of Neighborhood Involvement is attempting to ...

For many housed people, there is a tendency to conflate unhoused populations with violent crime and danger, but crime rates tell a different story. Editor's note: This story contains graphic ...

A carceral response to public inebriates — once narrowly focused on low-income people downtown — caused people to search for a better way, fueling the creation of HADIN In the mid-1980s, the most dire ...

Zenith Energy’s fossil fuel storage and transport facility faces criticism for potential environmental dangers, particularly in the event of an earthquake. Portland City Council and a fossil fuel ...

When wildfires devastated the West Coast this summer, burning ancient forests to embers and incinerating whole communities off the map, the internet found ironic solace in a familiar cartoon dog. A ...

According to a recent Gallup poll, 71% of Americans approve of labor unions, the highest approval rating since 1965. And worker organizing has led to unionization of stores at a number of well-known, ...

Editor’s note: As part of Street Roots’ ongoing solutions-based reporting on the foster care system, Street Roots took a deep dive into the national and local data on placement stability and ...

Anti-homeless policy has been a staple of cities the world over, whether those policies be forthright, like loitering laws and sit-lie ordinances, or peppered into a city’s infrastructure and public ...

On the streets of downtown Portland on June 18, masked federal agents pulled over and arrested a Colombian man who had just left immigration court. The incident, caught on video and first reported by ...