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Over 30 speed and intersection safety cameras are currently operating across Portland Bureau of Transportation’s (PBOT) High Crash Network and more are coming online soon. Placed at locations with a history of serious and deadly crashes, the cameras support Portland’s Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic deaths and

What’s more fortunate than having 24-hour access to high-end desserts? How about actual fortunes?. Pix Patisserie has been serving tasty treats on East Burnside since 2001, and some of them have been available at all hours in their Pix-O-Matic vending machines since 2020. The machines have long included random amusemen

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Candles, flowers, and pictures covered the corner of Southwest Scholls Ferry Rd and SW Barrows Rd to remember 14-year-old Jacob Tran. About a dozen friends prayed over the growing memorial on Thursday. “He was kind, always brought a smile to people,” one friend said during the...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Portland Fire & Rescue told KATU News that a body was recovered from the Willamette River on Friday morning. Rick Graves with Portland Fire & Rescue said the body appeared to have been in the water for some time. "This was a very decomposed body...

Portland’s food scene is something to celebrate every day, but it’s not every day you get to celebrate it with your pals at the Mercury! Our new food issue hits stands July 8, and on that day, we’re celebrating with an all-ages, free-to-attend shindig at one of Portland’s very best food cart pods, The Heist (4727 SE Wo

More than 1,000 people gathered in Oregon City on Thursday to celebrate one of Oregon’s oldest, strangest creatures: the Pacific lamprey. Best known for their round, razor-toothed mouths, lamprey are an ancient, jawless fish that have been around for some 450 million years — predating even the dinosaurs. Lamprey are an

CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore. (KPTV) - A 52-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a woman on New Year’s Eve 2024, according to the Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office. On Thursday, Jason David Perillo was convicted of second-degree murder for the death of 41-year-old Catherine...

EUGENE Ore. (KPTV) - Police in Eugene have found a hidden camera that they think was being used to monitor an Asian American family in connection to a string of burglaries in Beaverton and Salem, they announced on Wednesday. Officers did not release any details about how or where the...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Portland Police have detained two people after hit-and-run crash in northeast Portland on Thursday afternoon. PPB says officers responded to a reported crash near NE Fremont St and NE 127th Ave just before 3 p.m., where a caller said a person drove away after the crash.

A Portland man is accused of weaving his Mercedes through traffic at over 100 mph, crashing into two cars and then running away with thousands of dollars in cash on Friday — while wearing a court-ordered ankle monitor that tracked his every move. Antonio Chris Hall, 23, was booked...