Evening News

  The Free Gaza movement is a group of international and Palestinian activists working to open the Gaza Strip, an area which is currently under siege by Israeli military forces.The group is currently in Cyprus loading medical supplies onto fishing ships. On Tuesday, they... Read more

 Last Tuesday, KBOO reported a story about an alleged kidnapping that was reported in the Salt Lake City media.Instead of a kidnapping, the story turned out to be a false accusation that resulted into brutal hate crime committed against two gay men. In a follow-up to thi... Read more

 Small Pacific islands are facing increasing pressure as global warming bring higher tides.KBOO’s Beth Crawford has the story.  Read more

KBOO presents the latest on privacy issues from Civil Liberties Watch: Read more

 The Human Rights Campaign, or HRC, held a fund raiser in San Francisco last week to help defeat a November ballot measure that would ban gay marriage in California. The hrc is one of the largest national gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization... Read more

The US Senate debates a law to protect journalists from being forced to disclose confidential sources. Citizen journalists are not included for protection in the Senates version of The Free Flow of Information Act, S2035. Read more

 Today legacy emanuel hospital workers represented by S-E-I-U Local 49 are picketing in front of the north portland hospital to demand the same benefits and pay to their co-workers at Legacy Good Sam in North West Portland. After months of bargaining, legacy is offerin... Read more

Last Thursday, the Portland Tribune reported that the new indoor Day Labor Site run by Portland-based Voz Worker's Rights Education Project, hasn't been as popular with day laborers as they hoped. KBOO's Scott Pham spoke with Romeo Sosa of Voz. Read more

           Thanks to past court rulings on the environmental impact of hydroelectric dams, Northwest Salmon populations are making a comeback.KBOO's Scott Pham reports, in collaboration with the Oregon News Service. Read more

 Today in our recurring feature Civil Liberties Watch, reporter Linda Olson-Osterlund talks about a newly released report condemning the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma for Constitutional and Human Rights violations. Read more