Portland OR

A Portland police officer is under internal investigation after fleeing an off-duty shooting in Hood River in January without reporting it. Diego Ortiz Hernandez never called 911 or contacted local police. He also never informed his supervisors about the violent confrontation – until Hood River homicide investigators showed up at...

PORTLAND, Ore. — More than it has in recent memory, Portland's public safety apparatus faces deep cuts this spring, as the city seeks to close a budget gap upward of $160 million for the coming fiscal year. It's likely to increase emergency response times which have suffered already in recent years.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A woman was taken into custody after officials say she fled from a police traffic stop, then crashed into two other vehicles in Northeast Portland on Wednesday evening. Just after 7:30 p.m., Portland Fire & Rescue crews responded to reports of the three-vehicle crash, with one vehicle on its side at […]

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...

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...

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.

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 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...

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...

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.