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A Gresham roofing contractor has been fined more than $113,000 for repeatedly failing to protect workers from fall hazards that could seriously injure or kill. New Exteriors LLC, based in Gresham, was given the fine after an inspection of a jobsite in Lake Oswego where work was being done on the roof of a multistory...

With early signs of spring already popping up around Portland, we took a look back at the winter we just lived through and compared it with the previous 89 winters on record. All of the data in this project comes from NOAA daily climate summaries recorded at the weather station at Portland International Airport. The...

Publisher’s note: This essay is from Southeast Portlander, former PPS School Board candidate, and Bike Bus PDX organizer Rob Galanakis. Last we heard about the Bikeable Portland plan it was being considered for funding amid a special allocation from the Portland Clean Energy Fund. It was not chosen for funding, but...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - As the conflict in Iran continues, it has sent crude oil prices higher, and here at home, drivers are already seeing the impacts at the pump. Gas prices have already jumped up nationally by nearly 27 cents in a week. “Not affordable for anybody right now,...

Oregon has a long and proud history of feeding people well, and nowhere is that more obvious than at its classic, old-school steakhouses. These are the kinds of places where the booths are well-worn, the recipes haven’t changed in decades, and the regulars know the servers by name. I’ve...

Life’s too short to spend your dinners on too-expensive takeout. At least that’s one takeaway from a recent analysis conducted by online casino Ace.com, which ventured to determine the most “overpriced” pizza chains in the game. Reported by Time Out magazine, the study scoured 248,000 Google reviews from nearly...

GRESHAM, Ore. (KPTV) - One person has died and three others are hurt after a multi-car crash in Gresham on Friday evening. The Gresham Fire Department says three cars were involved in the crash near SE Stark and E Burnside St. The westbound lanes of E Burnside have been closed...

Brazilian coffee shop Kitanda Coffee is preparing to open a location in Vancouver, first reported by The Colombian. The cafe will replace the shuttered Starbucks on 304 W 8th St., in the Heritage Place East Building right along Esther Short Park. Kitanda was founded in 1998 by Joao Boff, who...

Eviction filings in Oregon are at an all-time high. This January, nearly 3,000 Oregon families faced eviction in court, roughly one-third of whom are Multnomah County residents. That’s double the pre-pandemic average. But even those high numbers don’t tell the full story. For every formal eviction filed in court,...

HILLSBORO, Ore. (KPTV) - Two juveniles were arrested after an early morning stabbing in Hillsboro on Thursday. At about 5:30 a.m., on March 5, officers responded to an fight involving two juveniles and a man in the area of Northeast 53rd Avenue and Northeast Elam Young Parkway. Police said the...