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MULTNOMAH COUNTY Ore. (KPTV) - A 58-year-old woman who is diagnosed with dementia has been missing since Saturday and was last seen in Troutdale, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said on Sunday. According to the sheriff’s office, Kellie Fuller was last seen around 2 p.m. Saturday in the parking...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Jolly Old Saint Nick took a break from his usual Christmas preparations at the North Pole to meet with kids at the Belmont Firehouse in Southeast Portland. This Saturday, kids were invited by Portland Fire and Rescue to meet and take pictures with “Safety Santa” as he shared some helpful fire...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A 49-year-old man is facing several charges, including DUI, hit-and-run, forgery and meth possession, after a high-speed chase along Interstate 84 ended with a crash in Portland’s Lloyd District on Thursday night. The incident started at about 11 p.m. Thursday when TriMet Transit Police saw...

I’m old enough to remember when the national media loved Portland, or at least found us adorable, worthy of fawning pieces about food carts and a zeitgeisty-but-mid sketch comedy series. I’m also old enough to remember when the national media started hating us, because that was just a few years ago. But the hits keep...

In the Frank Capra classic It’s a Wonderful Life, the despairing do-gooder George Bailey is shown a vision of the miserable hellscape his hometown would become had he never been born. Multnomah County officials have their own George Bailey complex—overlooked, unthanked, subject to abusive tirades—but no guardian...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Portland, Oregon – A more active winter pattern is expected to take shape across Oregon as the New Year approaches, with increasing confidence in mountain snow, valley rain, and periodic travel disruptions...

On Friday evening, October 31, at about 6:45 p.m., three youthful-looking masked men strolled into the Powell Liquor Store, on the corner of S.E. Powell Boulevard and 52nd Avenue – but they weren’t customers, they were thieves. Security video recorded the trio entering briskly, snatching booze off shelves,...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland man will spend the next 30 years in prison after he was convicted in a robbery case, and of shooting at two Portland Police officers who were trying to stop him. A grand jury found Christian Fitz-Henry, 31, guilty back in March of two...

Oregon Jewish groups are adding security to their Hanukkah celebrations tonight, but the largest events in the state all plan to go ahead. About 1,000 people usually gather in Portland’s Pioneer Square to light a large black Hanukkah menorah and eat the traditional latkes, or potato pancakes, to begin the eight-day...

Rob Reiner, the celebrated actor and director who’s 1986 film “Stand By Me” helped put Oregon on the map for Hollywood filming, has died. According to the Los Angeles Times, Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, 68, were found dead in their Brentwood, California home on Sunday, Dec. 14. Their deaths are...