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Converting offices to housing is hard. These changes could make it easier

PORTLAND, Oregon — Stroll around America's vacant downtowns, and a seemingly obvious solution emerges to the housing shortages and homelessness problems in many states: Why not turn all those unoccupied offices into living spaces? Especially in cities such as Portland, where the office vacancy rate in the urban core peaked…

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'I was thrown off a flight for having a mimosa and a half in the airport bar'

A woman has claimed on TikTok that she was removed from an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland to Las Vegas by a member of the cabin crew just before it was due to take off

Daily Mirror

Environmental message as plastic bottle survives for decade after being dropped in ocean off Portland

A message left in this plastic bottle revealed the packaging had stayed intact after a decade at sea, but it could have lasted 450 years.

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Campfire Audio Orbit review: hipster heaven?

“Number One hipster haven” is how lonelyplanet.com describes Portland, Oregon - and it’s safe to say proud Portland native Campfire Audio is happy enough with that description. Ever since the company got up and running in 2015, it’s been delivering idiosyncratic takes on wired in-ear monitors, with the only constants…

Residents living next door to UK's 'paedophile Alcatraz' fuming at plans to expand jail

HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset, is set for a major expansion but local residents say they weren't consulted about the plans and want the facility shutting down for good

Daily Mirror

‘Showing Up’ filmmaker Kelly Reichardt on the joys of ‘just hanging out,’ the way young artists once did

CHICAGO — The Florida-born filmmaker and Bard College film professor Kelly Reichardt makes beautiful movies about harsh conditions. In the singular early 19th century Oregon-set “First Cow” and now with her newest work, the disarming seriocomedy “Showing Up,” Reichardt pays attention to lives lived, often precariously, just above a fraying…

Chicago Tribune

The TikTok ‘Kia Boys’ challenge and violent crime: a link?

Despite a lack of FBI violent crime data, violent crime did not necessarily increase in the cities affected by the TikTok “Kia Boys” challenge.

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Lawsuit Claims Portland Police Shot Unarmed Homeless Man, Then Ate Pizza While His Body Lay on the Ground

Robert Delgado's family is now seeking damages.

Reason

Portland Port insists its ‘business as usual’ amid migrant barge controversy

The Dorset port has agreed to provide berthing space for a vessel on which the government is looking to house hundreds of asylum seekers

Birmingham Post

Maine city reopens arena to hundreds of asylum seekers

Hundreds of asylum seekers have filed into a basketball arena in Portland as Maine’s largest city deals with a months-long surge in immigration that has taxed its already limited housing market

The Independent UK

Kiss's Tommy Thayer names 11 guitarists who shaped his sound

The Spaceman offers his pick of the greatest riff-masters, salutes the player who invented the power chord and reveals the guitarist his bandmates compare him to (and it's not Ace Frehley)

Guitar World

How the politics and personalities of Portland's art scene informed A24's 'Showing Up'

A ceramic artist named Lizzy sits in her studio, nimbly bending the arm of a clay figurine. She examines her creation, then picks up a fork and scrapes the clay girl's skirt. In doing so, she adds folds to the clothing and makes it look more realistic.

Los Angeles Times

LeBron James talks about watching his son Bronny at Nike Hoop Summit

LeBron James found some time in his busy schedule to see his son Bronny James play his final game as a high schooler up in Portland.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Warriors use record-setting first quarter to secure playoff spot in chaotic West

PORTLAND, Ore. — A record-setting first quarter allowed the Warriors to cruise to their needed win on Sunday — and watch the rest of the West light up in chaos in the process.

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Injury Report: Steph Curry, Jonathan Kuminga listed as probable vs. Trail Blazers on Sunday

Steph Curry and Jonathan Kuminga are listed as probable for Golden State's regular-season finale in Portland on Sunday.

Los Angeles Times

Review: Kelly Reichardt's first comedy is a wincingly funny portrait of an artist at work

More than once in "Showing Up," her wry and wonderful new movie, the director Kelly Reichardt gives us something that feels rarer than it should in American cinema: a lingering moment in the presence of an artist at work. Not a famous writer pounding self-consciously away at a typewriter, cranking…

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Kerr: Wiggins won’t play in Warriors’ final 2 regular-season games

Andrew Wiggins will not play in the Golden State Warriors’ final two games of the regular season in Sacramento and Portland, head coach Steve Kerr said Wednesday in a radio interview.

The Independent UK

Inside the floating barge that’s set to hold 500 asylum seekers in Dorset

With “natural ventilation and wi-fi connection throughout”, the barge can accommodate up to 506 people across 222 bedrooms

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The Guardian - UK

Dorset asylum seeker barge will not be like a prison, says minister

But Richard Holden also says efforts will be made to avoid people needing to leave port to access local services

Birmingham Post

Home office confirms plans to house asylum seekers on barge at Dorset's Portland Port

The barge, called the Bibby Stockholm, will be berthed in Portland Port for at least 18 months

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s inhumane’: anger at plan to house asylum seekers on barge off Dorset

People on small island of Portland say scheme would be bad for them and bad for those on the vessel

The Independent UK

Tory MP issues legal threat over plan to house migrants on barge

Portland Port in Dorset has been selected as a site to house migrants, despite local opposition.

Daily Mirror

Location chosen for mega-barge that will house 500 asylum seekers on the British coast

The gigantic barge named Bibby Stockholm was deemed an 'oppressive environment' when it was used by the Dutch government to house asylum seekers in 2005

WEKU

When homelessness and mental illness overlap, is forced treatment compassionate?

Democratic leaders in California and Oregon are becoming more open to using involuntary psychiatric commitment to combat homelessness, drug abuse and untreated mental illness.

Tribune News Service

Governors push faster construction to meet housing needs

PORTLAND, Oregon — Dick Anderson, a Republican state senator from coastal Oregon, has a chart and a readymade joke to illustrate the housing crisis facing his state. Up until 2006, his figures show, home building was on an upward trajectory in Oregon. But once he retired from a career in…

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