The Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team surveyed 150 women from July through October 2024 across eleven women’s daytime and overnight shelters throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Faced with a homeless services system largely built for men, women experiencing domestic abuse may find themselves choosing between violence and the street.

Portland Police Bureau's Jami Resch greeting refugees arriving at the Portland International Airport in 2020. Refugee-focused ...

Many local non-profit organizations say they are concerned after the U.S. Office of Management and Budget attempted to freeze ...

If federal funding goes away, it's a "a huge hit in the amount of people we can feed," said the CEO of Meals on Wheels People ...

Thursday was the start of the Point In Time Count, it’s a snapshot of the number of homeless people in a county on a given ...

Malachai Martin is accused of second-degree murder in the Sept. 4 shooting of 21-year-old Malik Wilkerson. Court records show ...

Forcing survivors to litigate their restraining order hearings is a regular reality — and a gaping fault in a system that ...

The City of Portland, and its new 12-member City Council, is facing a growing budget gap that will require more than $100 ...

In 2024, Oregon ranked fourth in the nation ... programs manager at Portland nonprofit Raphael House, a domestic violence shelter. “And after all that, the restraining order is often not ...