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Subscribe to OPB’s First Look to receive Northwest news in your inbox six days a week. It’s that time of year when Portland residents prepare to pay the annual $35 arts tax. Today’s newsletter starts with how the oft-lampooned arts tax has generated millions of dollars in reserves...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - A 30-year-old man has been arrested in connection with four burglaries at a school in the Montavilla neighborhood, according to the Portland Police Bureau. All burglaries occurred at Grace Lutheran School at 2252 Southeast 92nd Avenue. The first break-in was reported on Monday, Jan. 19. PPB...

The report of flames erupting from the circa-1925, 528 sq. ft. house at 5706 S.E. Lambert Street on Wednesday, January 21st, triggered the dispatch of firefighters from several Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R) stations at 7:29 a.m. About five minutes later, PF&R Woodstock Station’s Ladder Truck Company – and both...

Oregon has quietly become one of the best places on the West Coast to find authentic Italian cooking. I’m talking about the kind of food that makes you close your eyes and imagine you’re sitting in a trattoria in Tuscany, not a dining room in Portland or Newport.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) — Thirty years ago this month, the Pacific Northwest experienced one of the most destructive natural disasters in modern history when the February 1996 flood devastated communities across Oregon and Washington. The catastrophic event transformed familiar landmarks into unrecognizable scenes....

This isn’t a bookstore—you plan a day around it. Powell’s City of Books swallows a full Portland city block and dares you to keep up. Over a million new, used, rare, and out-of-print titles stretch across color-coded rooms where time slips fast and phones stay pocketed. Locals don’t “pop in.” They commit.

Metro, the Portland area’s regional government, has raised $1.4 billion in tax revenue since 2020 specifically to provide homeless services in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties. That’s a ton of money. Added to all the other homelessness spending in the region – including federal, state and city funding –...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The wedding that took center stage during Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was not staged, the marriage scene was real. And the couple who tied the knot on national television – Thomas and Eleisa – initially got engaged on the Oregon coast!

Eugene’s new city manager will start on April 15 and make $306,000 per year. City Council selected Beaverton City Manager Jenny Haruyama as the next leader of Eugene’s government last month and unanimously approved her compensation package at its Feb. 9 meeting. In addition to this base salary, Haruyama's...

Community members across Lane County have been peacefully protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s presence in the region since last July. In doing so, people have gathered daily at the Old Federal Building downtown and also across town, at the intersection of 28th and Willamette, at least weekly. The “ICE...