As the COVID-19 pandemic nears its one-year mark in the United States, millions of people are still unable to make their monthly rent payments. In Oregon, an estimated 11.7 percent of the leased...

On August 5, street medic Davis Beeman was using his truck to block other vehicles from driving into a crowd of protesters—a practice known as “corking”—when Portland police declared the gathering a...

The members of the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) unit assigned to respond to protests and other crowd control situations voted to resign from the unit en masse Wednesday evening, according to several...

The head of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the agency overseeing federal officers’ response to protests in Portland, chastised local officials Thursday for the city’s handling of...

UPDATE 12:45 AM: Well, that was another depressing and unnecessarily violent night. As usual, the evening started with inspirational marches and speeches, and ended with riot police defending a...

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Ellen Bennington still doesn't know why Multnomah County jail guards made her take a pregnancy test. On the night of August 31, a crowd of several hundred had assembled near Mayor Ted Wheeler’s...

A Portland anti-fascist activist has been released of charges stemming from a 2019 clash with attendees of a right-wing demonstration in downtown Portland. On Friday, a Multnomah County judge...

Since Friday evening, a new Twitter account has caught the attention of people closely following Portland's nightly protests: @Clypian. It's the account for the South Salem High School newspaper, the...

Independent journalist Justin Yau contributed reporting to this story. When 17-year-old Violet was arrested on August 31 during a protest outside a Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office building on E...

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), an organization that investigates the health consequences of human rights violations, generally focuses its lens on international atrocities—like the Syrian...

Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse. Because of the sensitive nature of their experiences, some sources for this story have requested...

A tale of two years: In 2019, I received multiple texts from out-of-town relatives and friends begging to visit me in Portland. But then 2020 rolled around, and these are the type of texts I receiv...

Construction workers have been onsite at Benson Polytechnic High School's inner Northeast Portland campus for more than two years, laboring away at the $300 million school modernization project set...

[Originally reported by our sister organization, The Stranger.—eds] You will be shocked, simply SHOCKED, to learn that after decades of researching effective methods for police response to large...

[Check out all the Mercury's endorsements here. Don't have time for all those words? Use our handy-dandy election cheat sheet!] Governor: Tina Kotek While choosing who we elect for governor is always...

Tusitala “Tiny” Toese will serve nearly eight years in prison for his involvement in a 2021 Proud Boys brawl with antifascists, after a sentencing decision by Judge Amy Baggio Friday, July 21. Toese,...

Federal agents were hit with a lawsuit Friday for allegedly abducting Portlander Evelyn Bassi during the city’s 2020 racial justice protests. The federal complaint names agents with the US Department...

As of July 2021, 18 percent of all sworn officers employed by the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) live inside Portland's city limits. That's 155 of Portland's 828 total officers. This percentage point,...

Correction: An earlier version of this story misidentified the victim as Jay Bishop, another man affiliated with Patriot Prayer. The victim has instead been identified as Aaron Danielson, who often...

Alletta Brenner didn't know her home had been set on fire in the early morning hours of Friday, April 30, until she heard firefighters putting out the flames outside her bedroom window. "I was...

In the early hours of July 25, Mac Smiff was standing in Lownsdale Square, tweeting a photo of the protests, when he was shot in the head with a “less lethal” indelible paintball fired by a federal...

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Local police and federal officers in Portland appear to have used expired munitions during the city’s nightly downtown protests, exposing protesters to a range of potentially dangerous and under-re...

Workers at New Seasons’ Seven Corners store in Southeast Portland officially moved to unionize Friday after filing paperwork with the National Labor Relations Board. Store employees say they want to...

Portland Police Bureau (PPB) Chief Jami Resch is resigning, she announced at a Monday noon press conference. Resch's resignation comes after 10 nights of Portland protests against police brutality...

Update — 8/18, 12 pm: The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) has identified one of the suspects in the Sunday assaults as 25-year-old Marquise Love. In a morning press release, PPB said that investigators...

After years of debate, Portland City Council has passed a policy overhauling the city’s residential zoning rules to allow more housing within city limits. The Residential Infill Project (RIP) will...

As Portland sees a record-breaking surge in homicide rates and lagging 911 response times, city officials have heard a demand that lies in stark contrast with the calls of 2020’s racial justice...

Greetings, Sweet Peas! Woo-hoo, let’s dip into the mailbag! Here’s a letter from Richard B. of Portland, who takes issue with a recent “crudely casual” story written by the Mercury. “FYI: I would...

Hey readers 'n' pals! So a few days ago I was talking with an out-of-town friend who was VERY interested in the ongoing Portland protests, and DOUBLY interested that I occasionally cover them on the...

Police accountability advocates gathered on the corner of SE Grand and Washington this afternoon to hold a small vigil for the man shot last night by police at the nearby Cityteam homeless shelter....

The Seattle Sounders beat the Portland Timbers 2-1 at Providence Park on Friday night, avenging their loss to the Timbers at CenturyLink Field a month ago, and ensuring against the odds that the...

The Multnomah County Commission voted unanimously Thursday to direct $28 million in excess funds toward an array of rental assistance programs, dodging a request from Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office to...

Powell's City of Books is among Portland's most universally-loved attractions, but the workers who curate Powell's recommendation shelves and assist hordes of bookworms everyday say they're underpa...

The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) violated state law in 2020 when it filmed protest activity and shared livestreamed footage internally and over social media channels, a Multnomah County judge ruled...

More than two thousand Portland students walked out of class and marched to Portland City Hall Friday, delivering demands for a more aggressive response to climate change. The strike, organized by...

Four unhoused Portlanders have filed a class action lawsuit against the City of Portland for discarding private property confiscated during city-sanctioned sweeps of homeless campsites. The lawsuit,...

Teri Jacobs, an independent photojournalist, is suing the city of Portland and a group of Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers for injuries she sustained while covering a protest last month. On...

According to attorneys with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Portland's current police oversight board is relying on flawed—if not unconstitutional—logic to clear Portland cops of alleged miscon...

Eight days before Portland’s most severe snowstorm in 80 years, Portland Commissioner Rene Gonzalez banned Portland Street Response (PSR) outreach workers from distributing tents and tarps to people...

A Multnomah County Circuit Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Portland Police Bureau's (PPB) livestream video of nightly protests against police brutality and racial...

Despite persistently low union density, support for unions is at a historic high in the United States, with 65 percent of Americans supporting them, according to a recent MIT study. This rise in...

The worker strike organized by employees at Portland-area Fred Meyer and QFC stores has come to an end after the workers' union reached an agreement with Kroger, the national company that owns both...

City Commissioners heard loud opposition and support Wednesday to a proposed city policy that would ban homeless camping across Portland. The seven hours of testimony, provided by more than 200...

Portland police detective Erik Kammerer is being sued, again, for the way he treated members of the public during 2020's racial justice protests. A lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses Kammerer of using...