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The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! GOOD AFTERNOON, PORTLAND! Hope you enjoyed the nice sunny day forecasters promised us *yesterday.* Tomorrow expect occasional showers with cloudy skies and a high of 61. Now let's get into the NEWS,...

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Hello Mercury Music readers! It's Mac Smiff, and I’ll be covering for our beloved Jennifer Moore while she takes some time to celebrate and bond with her adorable new baby! No worries, she’ll be back. But in the meantime you’ll have to put up with me. This weekend contains the much anticipated confluence of Juneteenth and the annual Pride Festival, so expect it to be busy outside, even if this rain keeps falling through the...

When Margaret Carter reflects on police, she remembers the 1970s, when officers in North Portland planted marijuana in people’s cars and arrested them. Since then, said Carter — the first Black woman elected to the Oregon Legislature — little has changed to restore trust between Black Portlanders and police officers. And continued police killings of Black Americans have only exacerbated these ...

Tense hospital scene after shooting increases alarm over Portland’s gun violence ‘crisis’ Updated 8:36 PM; 2 Facebook Share A flood of Portland police cars responded late Monday to break up a report of a gang fight at the doors to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center’s emergency department, where four people with gunshot wounds had just arrived. The scene was reminiscent of scenarios two decades ago when officers, street outreach workers and pastors routinely headed to the hospital to cool tensions between rival gangs. Those days are back, say police, former gang members and community leade...