This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and events and how weather impacted them. Vanport was a city in Oregon ...

Vanport, Oregon was built during WWII to house shipyard workers, many of whom were women. Vanport was the most ambitious attempt ever made to shape space, building and services to facilitate the entry ...

75 years ago today, what was once Oregon’s 2nd largest city was erased from the map in hours. If you’ve never heard of the Vanport Flood, read on...it only happened 5 miles from downtown Portland! I ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Live music is taking over the Colwood Golf Center on Friday and Saturday for the sixth annual Vanport Jazz Festival — honoring the former city and the musicians who brought ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — This month marks 75 years since the deadly Vanport flood in what is now North Portland. Once Oregon's second largest city, Vanport was a diverse community in a time when many of its ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The local community gathered at the Portland Expo on Saturday to honor the 77th anniversary of the Vanport Flood. As its name suggests, Vanport was located close to the border ...

This content was produced in partnership with Fuego Fino and Vanport 1948. Once the second largest city in Oregon, bustling and lively, Vanport had scores of businesses, including schools, a police ...

One of the best parts of our work is when we hear how our stories touch individual lives. In 2021, that happened with the Oregon Experience documentary “In the Shadow of Fairview.” The program tells ...