PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of people are expected at events Friday in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan region to celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday heralding the day in 1865 that all enslaved...

Events are planned across northern New England on Friday to mark Juneteenth, the day when the last enslaved African Americans learned they were free 155 years ago.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Portland Sea Dogs are embracing golf during the pandemic.

The team, an affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, announced it's transforming Hadlock Field into a...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland’s mayor and police chief say they will review police tactics after hearing accounts of officers threatening and roughing up journalists covering demonstrations...

The state of Maine is reviewing whether Cumberland County Jail corrections officers used excessive force last year when they pepper sprayed two mentally ill inmates who were in the midst of a...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland will formally recognize June 19, or Juneteenth, as a paid holiday, Mayor Ted Wheeler said.

The Portland City Council plans to adopt an ordinance...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a man drove his car into a crowd of protesters early Wednesday morning in downtown Portland, Oregon, injuring three people.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — At least two Portland-based reporters were injured while covering protests against police brutality over the weekend.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A former Fred Meyer employee who says he was fired from a Portland store after he complained about a pattern of racism has filed a $2 million lawsuit against the grocery...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A chain-link fence that blocked the downtown Portland, Oregon, jail from nightly protesters will be taken down.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland Democrat Maxine Dexter was sworn into office to serve out the remaining months of Mitch Greenlick’s term representing Northwest Portland’s House District...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The sentencing for a man convicted of fatally stabbing two people who tried to stop his racist tirade against two young black women on a Portland, Oregon, light-rail train...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Police in Maine's largest city said they stationed officers on downtown rooftops during recent protests because they learned armed counter-demonstrators planned to...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — People in Portland continued protesting the death of George Floyd for the 15th day on Thursday after city officials tried but did not come to agreement on budget plans....

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A newly redeveloped park in Northeast Portland is being renamed to honor a prominent black female leader, removing a moniker with racist connotations.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge Tuesday night backed Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s restrictions on the city’s police use of a common tear gas with a 14-day court order banning the agent...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Gov. Janet Mills extended the state of emergency in Maine for another 30 days on Wednesday, the third extension since the coronavirus pandemic prompted her to take action in...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The police department in Maine's largest city bars the use of chokeholds and other methods used to restrict the airways and classifies those actions as deadly force,...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Firestone Pacific Foods in Vancouver, Washington, has started reopening after a coronavirus outbreak infected 132 people and forced the fruit processor to halt operations....

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Several mainland fire departments responded to a fire inside the post office of an island community in Maine on Monday.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police chief in Portland, Oregon, stepping down following George Floyd protests.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Washington County jail deputy, who was placed on leave after a racist email surfaced, has been indicted on charges of first-degree official misconduct tied to a separate...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) —

The Portland Sea Dogs ditched the baseball team’s ice cream supplier over a racist comment.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The most densely populated part of Portland has the highest incidence of the coronavirus, and there’s a high rate of infection in neighboring communities as well, according...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Localized data about the coronavirus outbreak show that Maine's cities have seen higher rates of infection than rural areas, according to data released by the...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon hasn’t seen a coronavirus resurgence in the weeks since most counties began to slowly reopen businesses, the state’s top health official said Wednesday.