Street Roots' art director encourages you to dive into some of the deeper-buried Halloween media along with the classics ...

A storm of revelations about data centers’ aggressive expansion around Hillsboro and elected officials’ support for them created powerful grassroots opposition this year. That coalition now threatens ...

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A Lime e-scooter parked on the sidewalk in front of Albina Library on September 11, 2026. Street Roots documented 21 examples of scooters parked on the sidewalk over the week we spent reporting this ...

“A few nights ago we decided to challenge ourselves and wreck four camera towers in one night,” said an early-August post on a Portland anarchist message board. Photos of the destroyed mobile camera ...

NOTE: If you are experiencing trafficking, sexual violence or domestic violence, you can get help by contacting Call to Safety’s 24/7 phone line at 503-235-5333 to talk with a confidential and ...

Dan Sloan talks about tree limb grafting with a tour group in Portland Food Forest Initiatives first site during a Saturday, July 18 tour in the Cully Neighborhood. Credit: Henry Brannan / Street ...

The Portland area is headed for a dramatic housing and homelessness funding cliff that could cause thousands of people to lose their housing and would leave the tri-county region with billions less to ...

On any given night, thousands of people sleep on the streets in Portland, Oregon. They seek shelter in tents, bushes and overpasses in a city that has struggled with one of the worst housing crises in ...

The door to Sammy's Tarp Palace on July 9. Sammy has built the home-garden hybrid into the landscape over years, and visitors described it to Street Roots as beautiful. Credit: Henry Brannan / Street ...

A sculpture by Micah BlackLight will be erected in Ashland in 2027 after efforts by the Say Their Names Coalition pushed for a permanent public art installation. Credit: Etta O'Donnell-King / Street ...

Yakama Nation Fisheries’ biologist Dave'y Lumley holds a net at the bottom of part of Willamette Falls on June 24 to catch lamprey swimming away from gatherers above her. Minutes earlier, she swam ...