After seven years of living in a cramped two-bedroom apartment in Northeast Portland with her four sons, Ja’Nelle Samuels assumed homeownership was impossible. The 43-year-old single mom and nonprofit manager grew up without housing stability. Her only model for homeownership growing up was her grandmother, who took her in after she left the foster care […]
GRESHAM — Staff at La Pulga Fantástica remembered what a full house feels like as they pushed through the constant flow of running meals, restocking coolers, bussing tables and cleaning spilled Modelo beers off the floor as customers cheered each time Mexico scored a goal against Ecuador Tuesday night. The last time the flea market […]
Bigfoot is officially helping Oregon celebrate the country’s 250th birthday. This September, the Dallas Area Visitors Center will host its second annual Bigfootstock, a one-day festival rooted in local folklore and the town’s rural identity that brings together educators, agritourism businesses and tribal partners. “Through storytelling, cultural exchange, and educational experiences and of course music, […]
The Oregon Historical Society is hosting an event on Thursday evening highlighting one of the state’s earliest and most prominent health and equity advocates. The event, “It Started Here in The Dalles: The Passionate, Notorious Story of Dr. Marie Equi,” will feature historian and human rights activist Michael Helquist telling the story of Dr. Marie […]
Oregon’s new state forester Kacey KC’s first experience with wildfire was watching flames move down the mountainside toward her childhood home in Nevada. On a summer break from college in 1996, “literally working at the car wash,” she explained, she saw from across town a huge plume of smoke growing around her neighborhood. She called […]
The Oregon Capital Chronicle did the best work of any small newsroom in Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Alaska or Montana in 2025, according to judges of the Society of Professional Journalists’ annual Northwest Excellence in Journalism awards. The Capital Chronicle’s win for general excellence was one of four first-place awards in the regional contest. Capital Chronicle […]
MCMINNVILLE— In 2021, Richard Smith and Serengeti Savage took over the downtown McMinnville tea shop where they had their first date. The shop sits along the town’s popular Third Street, which is lined with antique shops, restaurants, wineries and other unique gift stores. Right as the couple was feeling ready to hire employees at Velvet […]
