A new mayor with no political experience in Portland has an audacious plan — some say naive — to end street homelessness, writes Danny Westneat.

An Oregon man has been sentenced to life in federal prison after being convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two women in separate instances, including locking one in a cinder block cell. Negasi Zuberi,

District Attorney Nathan Vasquez told reporters Wednesday that he would seek charges against demonstrators from “the left, right or center.”

The Portland stop would be along the Seattle to Denver route, stretching across 1,647 miles in about 40 hours.

With Trump pardoning or commuting the sentences of people who participated in the Jan. 6 riots, extremism experts have openly wondered if activists who favor the president — many of whom traveled to Oregon and Washington for violent conflicts with leftist demonstrators — will be emboldened toward further political violence over the next four years.

Washington state, joined by Oregon, Arizona and Illinois, filed a lawsuit against President Trump's executive order in U.S. District Court.

Portland marketing technology company Act-On Software sold its business Thursday to Banzai International, a marketing software business headquartered on Bainbridge Island near Seattle. Banzai will pay $53 million for Act-On — $20 million in cash plus stock valued at $33 million.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- An Oregon man has been sentenced to life in ... Zuberi solicited a woman to engage in prostitution along Aurora Avenue in Seattle, authorities said. He told the woman he was ...

An Oregon man has been sentenced to life in federal ... Negasi Zuberi, 31, was sentenced Friday in federal court in Medford, Portland television station KGW reported. A federal jury convicted ...

BEND, Ore. (KRCR) — A wanted man was arrested after a multi-agency SWAT team found him naked in Oregon, according to the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office (DCSO). Authorities said Salvador Edward Juarez, 50, wasn't wearing any clothes when he was found.

The temporary restraining order sought by Arizona, Illinois, Oregon and Washington was the first to get a hearing before a judge and applies nationally.

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown said the executive order Trump signed on Monday is "unconstitutional on its face" and "un-American."