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Normal 0 Santa works hard to make Christmas magical for boys and girls around the globe, but new research shows his operation could be more environmentally friendly with some fine-tuning.     Read more

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Normal 0 The Portland City Council unanimously passed a resolution that will allow car camping at religious and other not-for-profit sites.  KBOO's Joe Meyer spoke with Housing Bureau Director Traci Manning about how the resolution would work and with Rev. Dr. Anton D... Read more

Normal 0 It appears as if the coal industry is intent on giving the people of Oregon and Washington lumps of coal this holiday season – and they’re moving quickly to get it done under the radar. For more on this story, KBOO’s Dan Johnson spoke with Laura Stevenson, an ... Read more

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or N-R-C, recently announced that it cited the Hanford Nuclear Reservation for safety violations in connection with five events last year. Energy Northwest, which operates the reactor, is applying to relicense the reactor for another tw... Read more

The Supreme Court will be ruling in February of next year on whether the plaintiffs in a case against Shell can sue a corporation for human rights abuses. The case, Kiobel versus Royal Dutch Petroleum, or Shell, was based on a lawsuit by twelve Nigerians stating that sev... Read more

The Portland City Council passed a resolution today allowing churches and non-profits to offer parking lots for car camping. Community Organizations may now provide safe harbor to homeless people looking for a place to sleep overnight in cars, rvs or trailers. KBOO’s Zek... Read more

This week is the busiest week of the year for the US Postal Service. Despite all the business, the postal service is on the verge of bankruptcy because of a pre-funding mandate imposed by a lame-duck Congress in 2006.  Here in Portland, a door-to-door canvassing group cal... Read more