THROWBACK: The library was funded by a Carnegie Foundation endowment, and the city agreed to pitch in a minimum of $1,500 each year.

Downtown Portland’s Central Library is now open after a week-long closure following a deadly shooting near the building. Now that the library is back open, those in the area said its reopening is the ...

Police identified the man who was shot and killed outside of the downtown Portland library last Tuesday.The medical examiner ...

Midland’s first library was contained in a bookcase in a room at a downtown church. It was 1900 when 42 people donated 35 books and $7 at a book social, according to notes recorded by Mrs. William L.

Multnomah County will keep its flagship library shuttered to the public a while longer following a shooting Tuesday that left ...