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The local community gathered at the Portland Expo on Saturday to honor the 77th anniversary of the Vanport Flood.
The final weekend of the 10th annual Vanport Mosaic Festival wrapped up the festival of "memory activism" at Portland Expo.
Ten years ago, Laura Lo Forti couldn’t have imagined the Vanport Mosaic Festival would become an annual tradition. It started as a grassroots effort to honor a forgotten chapter of Oregon’s ...
Here are eight must-attend events to check out this weekend! What's going on: Vanport, once Oregon's second-largest city, was destroyed by a flood in 1948 that left 18,000 people homeless.
It would repeal a state map designed to pinpoint the parts of Oregon at highest risk for wildfire, prioritize fire mitigation efforts and identify which property owners should be subject to extra ...
On May 30th 1948, the city of Vanport was destroyed by a flood, displacing thousands of people. Laveta Gilmore Jones from Vanport Mosaic joined us to share why it's important to keep the memory ...
A bill to repeal the state’s unpopular Wildfire Hazard Map passed the Oregon Senate unanimously in April, signaling it would be one of the least controversial and most bipartisan bills to pass ...
It’s part of the offerings of the Vanport Mosaic Festival she co-founded 10 years ago. The play, like the festival itself, centers on remembering and reclaiming history and telling the stories ...
The map, created by the Oregon Department of Forestry at the legislature's behest, is now so universally despised that SB 83 sailed through the Senate last month with unanimous support.
KOIN 6 takes a closer look with Energy Trust of Oregon at how you can save money and keep pollen out as Oregon's pollen season ramps up. Over a month after a downtown Portland assault, police say ...
The treaty’s roots date to Memorial Day in 1948. After a heavy spring rain, a 15-foot wall of water wiped out Vanport, Oregon, a city just outside Portland that had housed thousands of shipyard ...
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