Arborist injured in chainsaw incident rescued from tree in East Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. — First responders rescued an arborist from a tree after the worker suffered a chainsaw injury Wednesday morning. The incident occurred near Southeast 162nd Avenue and Market Street. Crews from Portland Fire & Rescue and Gresham Fire worked together to bring the arborist safely from the tree...
Highway 99 reopened in Tigard after being shut down due to unspecified ‘police activity’
TIGARD, Ore. (KATU) — Highway 99 is back open to traffic after unspecified "police activity" closed all lanes near the intersection with Interstate 5 in Tigard. The alert of the closure was first sent out around 1:46 p.m. According to information on the Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) TripCheck...
‘Unacceptable’: Reynolds School District denied summer school funding
The Reynolds School District will not receive state funding for summer school in 2026, despite being determined the most in need of funding in 2025, due to a new competitive grant model that reduces the number of funding recipients.
County Commissioner and City Councilor Call on Home Forward Board to Resign
Home Forward made it official this morning that CEO Ivory Mathews is resigning as the leader of the state’s largest housing authority. Her resignation is effective Friday. It follows WW’s reporting that she spent more than $100,000 on agency-funded travel in recent years even as the agency struggled to fill apartments and saw its finances deteriorate.
Portland Firefighters Inch Stuck Theater Elevator Toward Rescue
Portland firefighters spent Tuesday afternoon slowly cranking a stalled elevator car upward, inch by careful inch, so they could line it up with a floor and finally reach the people trapped inside. Officials described the work as painstaking but headed in the right direction, with crews operating from a nearby theater control room while a technical rescue team made its way to the scene...
Mental health response briefly closes Oregon 99W in SW Portland
Portland police officers fielded calls about a man in crisis in Southwest Portland on Wednesday afternoon and closed Oregon 99W and a ramp to Interstate 5 during their response. Sgt. Kevin Allen said officers responded to calls about a man injuring himself with a knife near Southwest Luradel Street just...
Neighbors in Hillsboro raise safety concerns over traffic issues near incoming In-N-Out
HILLSBORO, ORE. (KATU) -- — We're getting closer to the opening of a new In-N-Out Burger in Hillsboro that could be up and running by late summer. The burger chain has expanded here in the Portland Metro as of late most recently in Vancouver last week and Ridgefield last year.
Man Sought In Clackamas County Bird Egg Theft Investigation
Authorities in Clackamas County are asking for the public’s help identifying a man accused of removing eggs from a protected bird nest near Rivervilla Park. The Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division said the incident occurred along a railroad trestle near Rivervilla Park in Milwaukie, likely in June 2025. Investigators received a report months later, in March 2026, along with photos of a...
Meet Gertie, the world’s oldest chicken who lives in Portland
In a neighborhood not far from downtown Portland, there's a teenager who lives with two cats and a Great Dane. She likes jazz, taking naps, and.... pecking at kitchen scraps. Her name is Gertie, and she's a chicken. At age 15, the Guinness Book of World Records recently declared her...
A Portland councilor’s push to ban masked cops used a story police say isn’t...
The outline of the case seemed especially terrifying in Portland City Councilor Sameer Kanal’s telling. A masked man, he said, walked into a Southeast Portland 7-Eleven, identified himself as a federal immigration agent and tried to hold up an employee. Except, not all of that was true. The 19-year-old...
