The mayor of Idaho's largest city has launched an investigation to determine if a police officer, whose ties to a white supremacist group became known after he retired, violated the rights of any residents during his 22 years with the agency. Boise Mayor Lauren McLean launched the probe on Monday after The Idaho Statesman reported that former police Capt. Matthew Bryngelson appeared under a fake name on the speaker list for a gathering of what the Southern Poverty Law Center says are Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists. McLean says the investigation will also look into whether Bryngelson or others used agency resources to “advance racist ideology.”
City officials in Portland, Oregon, have voted to ban street camping. The aim is to move homeless people from about 700 encampments across the city to a few large, designated campsites where they can access services. Portland joins the growing number of progressive West Coast cities that have moved to ban camping and create sanctioned camping areas, after years of struggling to tackle homelessness. In the past couple years, Republican-led states such as Texas and Missouri have passed similar laws that also divert money from affordable housing projects to short-term shelter solutions. Opponents say the restrictions effectively criminalize homelessness without addressing the root causes.
The federal government is suing Driggs, an East Idaho city near Grand Teton National Park, for dumping toxic waste from its sewage treatment p…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland, Oregon, plans to ban camping on city streets and move unhoused people to designated campsites, as…
BOISE (AP) — Embattled Boise Police Chief Ryan Lee has resigned at the request of the city’s mayor, Lauren McLean.
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SEATTLE — Seattle’s downtown business community celebrated Wednesday after the moderate candidates it backed took commanding leads in the race…
