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For decades, department stores competed for customers. Knute Berger recalls how Frederick & Nelson lured them in with a chocolate mint truffle.

The Portland-born 'Nature Man' was a regular kid until an illness inspired him to shed his clothes and take to the woods. Fame followed.

White's own journey led her to organize searches for lost loved ones and events like the May 6 march.

The Emerald City has played many film roles, from gritty city to rom-com backdrop. Knute Berger reviews our cinematic history.

During the timber boom, opportunists turned the remains of old-growth trees into homes and postcard spectacles.

Decades after the Civil War, nostalgia for the 'Lost Cause' took hold in the Northwest. Knute Berger explains how.

HB 1324 hopes to remedy the harm of the racist 'superpredator' myth, which has lengthened the sentences for mostly Indigenous and Black youth. 

People flocked to see a young orca lost in a river near Portland. Then she was killed, pickled and left in a tank on a mountainside.

From cheap power to rugged hiking trails, Franklin D. Roosevelt's government transformed the region.

After decades of federal assimilation policies, $15 million in American Rescue Plan funding is helping construct affordable housing on their reservation.