KBOO News Team

  Mya  Guarnieri  jaradat is a journalist whose pioneering reporting pioneering reporting has appeared in The Nation and The Guardian. She spent nearly a decade covering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.   Her book The Unchosen, The Lives of Israel’s New Ot... Read more

The Portland based rock band, The Slants, has won a major Supreme Court victory. For the last 8 years, the band has been fighting for the right to trademark their band name, which they were denied due to the band name being deemed as offensive by the trademark office. The... Read more

This weekend is the Portland Pride Waterfront Festival and Parade, one of the largest LGBTQ cultural celebrations on the West Coast The festival will be held at Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Exhibitor booths are open from Noon until 8pm on Saturday and 11:30am until 6pm Sund... Read more

After an agreement with the city of Portland and the US Department of Justice following an COCL outcomes report, following the finding of pattern and practice of excessive force in Portland Police, Joanne Hardesty, a member of the AMA Steering Comittee and host of KBOO's "V... Read more

The Oregon legislature has made a clear decision about how they feel towards collection actions that single out kids when their parents don’t pay lunch bills or whose accounts lapse. In Salem The Oregon House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill to prohibit scho... Read more

  A diplomatic rift is opening underneath the critical alliance between the U-S and Turkey. The U-S values Turkey as one of the few democratic-esque countries in the Middle East region, and the two nations are collaborating in the fight against the Islamic State. They di... Read more