Tensions and emotions around Portland Public Schools are stretching increasingly thin as the teachers strike hits its seventh day with no immediate end in sight, leaving 44,000 students at risk
The Public Library Associations' National Conference has hit the Oregon Convention Center, marking the first large event in Portland since the start of the pandemic.
Jan 18, 2021
As part of a national memorial to remember and honor those Americans who have died of COVID-19, the Oregon Convention Center will be lighted in red, white, and blue Tuesday, January 19.
Multnomah County Commissioner Jessica Vega Pederson requested the lighting as part of President-elect Joe Biden’s effort to recognize the roughly 400,000 Americans who have now died of COVID. The number of dead will soon surpass the number of Americans killed in all of World War II, making the COVID-19 epidemic the third most deadly tragedy in American history, after the 1918 Influenza outbreak and the U.S. Civil War.