Portland OR

If you think waffles are just vehicles for syrup, The Waffle Window in Portland is about to expand your horizons in the most delicious way possible. This cheerful blue window serves up sweet waffles that’ll make you reconsider every dessert decision you’ve ever made, and possibly some life choices too.

The northeast Portland restaurant Kau Kau is serving up a taste of aloha.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Supporters of scientific research gathered for a rally in Portland Saturday as part of a nationwide day of events, with organizers saying they are pushing back against what they see as threats to science funding, evidence-based medicine and academic freedom. Keith Eddins, an organizer of...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Portland, Oregon – Snow levels will fall across northwest Oregon and southwest Washington tonight, bringing possible light snow to lower elevations early Tuesday morning. According to the National Weather...

TIGARD, Ore. (KATU) — Tigard Police are investigating a disturbance with a weapon call near SW Scholls Ferry Road and SW Summer Lake Avenue this past weekend. “A man shot a bow and arrow at a family member’s car,” Kelsay Anderson, Public Information Officer with Tigard Police said. “Nobody was hurt.”

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A ballot initiative that would divert 25% of Portland’s clean energy tax revenue to police staffing has cleared an initial legal hurdle and will move forward with signature gathering. The Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) was passed by voters in 2018, creating...

TriMet’s plan to build bus-only lanes on about seven miles of Southeast 82nd Avenue is an outstandingly bad idea, (“One of Portland’s busiest streets may get a dramatic overhaul. Not everyone is on board,” Feb. 12). Adding these Business Access and Transit — BAT — lanes...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Fired bureau directors are leaving Portland with hundreds of thousands of dollars in severance payments, as the city stares down another massive budget hole in the upcoming fiscal year. The payments alarm at least one Portland city councilor, who told KATU the city is leaning...

A Woodland man was arrested last month in connection with the death of a Vancouver woman whose body was discovered on state forest land near the Tarbell Trailhead in eastern Clark County. 

This story is Part 1 of “Getting by on Burnside,” an ongoing series from The Oregonian/OregonLive that uses Burnside Street – the only road that extends uninterrupted from the city’s eastern to western limits – to explain the facets of Portland’s housing crunch. Burnside...