Grand Ronde photographer M. Earl Williams explores the creation of community M. Earl Williams grew up with his family on the Grand Ronde Reservation and started his artistic career as an adventurous skateboarding teen with a camera. Now, with several art ...
22 Feb 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
Set to open to the public Feb. 21, Great Circle Recovery Clinic addresses ongoing opioid crisis The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde is bringing its whole-person opioid addiction treatment to Portland. Dozens attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the ...
15 Feb 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
Conflicting interests in ongoing Klamath Basin water crisis force difficult choices In 2023, the Klamath Basin enters a new era as the long-awaited removal of several hydroelectric dams along the Klamath River begins. As dam removal begins, the region fac ...
1 Feb 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
Congress announces long-awaited advance funds for Indian Health Service, but ongoing underfunding is problematic Native nations in the Pacific Northwest and across Turtle Island applauded a historic decision to provide $5.13 billion in advance appropriati ...
18 Jan 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
After years of unreliable access to clean water, federal government pledges $23.8 million towards new facility on Warm Springs reservation A critical component of a solution to chronic water quality issues on the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Rese ...
4 Jan 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
Altering or reversing the Indian Child Welfare Act would damage tribal sovereignty, but select states — like Oregon — may offer protection In a case with potentially far-reaching consequences for tribal sovereignty, a divided Supreme Court debated the con ...
30 Nov 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
A major river restoration project is likely forthcoming, but fish and tribes in the basin face ongoing water and climate troubles A decades-long effort to remove four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River may soon come to fruition. In the Klamath Basi ...
2 Nov 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
A change of record may be coming for the family of a man killed by Portland police in the 1940s. After a Street Roots investigation into the 1945 Portland police homicide of Ervin Jones Sr. and the intergenerational impacts on his family, the Multnomah Co ...
5 Oct 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
The Portland Community College Bond Measure, David Douglas School District Bond Measure and a Parkrose School District 5-year Operating Levy will be on this year's ballot. Read more about them: Measure 26-224 Portland Community College Bond Measure A ...
5 Oct 2022 - Melanie Henshaw and Piper McDaniel
Democrat Andrea Salinas faces Republican Mike Erickson to represent Oregon’s newest congressional district Oregon ’ s 6th Congressional District Oregon’s 6th U.S. Congressional District is Oregon’s newest congressional district and represents a region of ...
28 Sep 2022 - Melanie Henshaw