Thursday was the start of the Point In Time Count, it’s a snapshot of the number of homeless people in a county on a given night.

To understand the impact of domestic violence on women’s housing stability, the Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team surveyed 150 women from July through October 2024 across eleven women’s daytime and overnight shelters throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Faced with a homeless services system largely built for men, women experiencing domestic abuse may find themselves choosing between violence and the street.

Forcing survivors to litigate their restraining order hearings is a regular reality — and a gaping fault in a system that continues to fail battered women, advocates say.

Malachai Martin is accused of second-degree murder in the Sept. 4 shooting of 21-year-old Malik Wilkerson. Court records show officers arrested Martin on Jan. 9 in an unrelated domestic violence assault case in Multnomah County and then identified him as the suspect in the killing.

The Sept. 4 shooting in a parking lot just off West Burnside Street resulted in the death of Malik Wilkerson, 21, pictured above.

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The Pacific Northwest became fertile ground for groups bent on political violence during the first Trump administration.

The biennial federally mandated survey helps provide a snapshot of those experiencing homelessness in the metro area on a given day.

Rates of deadly gun violence have climbed substantially in the U.S. in recent years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were approximately 19,650 homicides carried out with a firearm in 2022 — or an average of about 54 every day.

Forecast issued at 4:15 pm EDT on Sunday 19 January 2025. Partly cloudy. The chance of fog in the early morning. Slight chance of a shower near the Otways in the evening. Near zero chance of rain elsewhere. Winds south to southeasterly and light becoming ...