Evening News

The media watchgroup FAIR, or Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, challenged Fox News on the accuracy of its pre-election reporting. Fox responded with an attack on the media watchgroup, saying that Fox had no control over what its pundits said - in this case, referring to... Read more

The City of Portland plans to sell more than $15 million dollars in general obligation bonds next week in order to fix up the city’s main fire station on Naito Parkway. The sale is the last of a series of bonds issued as part of a 53 million dollar measure approved by ta... Read more

This morning US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced that some of the massive bailout package could be used to help consumers. In his remarks, Paulson acknowledged that the bailout hasn’t delivered what he promised, when he asked Congress for the money last month. He... Read more

A new study may have found that dams don’t have as much of an impact on salmon as we may have thought.  KBOO’s Brendan Grubb reports.  Read more

Michele Darr is in the same spot she has been for the past eleven days; camping and on hunger strike at the steps of governor Ted Kulongoski’s office in salem.   She wants a meeting with the governor and a chance to dissuade him from sending oregon's National Guard to se... Read more

Oregon children participating in school activities have been exposed to dangerous pesticides dozens of times over the past ten years. This is according a report kept at the State Department and the Department of Human Services. KBOO’s Kyle Burris spoke with Lisa Arkin, who... Read more

The ballots have barely been counted But the legal battle against California’s Proposition 8, to end gay and lesbian marriages, has already moved on.  KBOO’s Jacob Anderson-Minshall has more Read more

When KBOO heard about the possibility of water damage on ballots at the Multnomah County elections office, reporter Theresa Mitchell headed over to find out what was going on. Although the close race between Jeff Merkley and incumbent Gordon Smith for State Senator has n... Read more

One of the art openings in tonight’s ‘First Thursday’ event in downtown Portland will be a quilt made by a collective of women artisans in Afghanistan. The quilt will be displayed in Portland’s City Hall for the next month. Portland is its only stop on the West Coast durin... Read more

Starting today, Barack Obama will receive highly classified briefings from top intelligence officials. But the bigger focus is still on who he'll choose to fill positions in his administration. It's not clear if Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel will accept Obama's of... Read more