Portland OR

PORTLAND, Ore. – A long-standing Central Eastside business is voicing frustration after a homeless encampment took over sidewalks and parking spaces outside its storefront, leaving employees with fewer safe options and highlighting Portland’s ongoing struggle to balance business needs, public safety, and the rights...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A Portland-area man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for assaulting his 20-month-old son so severely that the child nearly died. Joseph Washington was sentenced on Aug. 28, by Judge Christopher Ramras after being convicted of multiple charges, including assault in the first degree, for...

Multnomah County is facing allegations that sheriff deputies continued to hold a man in custody for 22 hours after a federal judge ordered his release. The man was later turned over to U.S. Marshals, who transferred him to federal immigration officials. In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — TriMet has announced that the Portland Police Bureau will once again be part of the transit division to boost rider safety after a multiyear break. More Portland police officers will soon be riding along on TriMet’s 1.3 million weekly trips. On Friday, PPB announced it would be rejoining with...

One of the victims in Wednesday’s stabbing in Northwest Portland was moving her tent when 38-year-old Victor Palmer-Regen, who lived in a nearby triplex, allegedly attacked her and a friend who had been helping her pack up. Palmer-Regen was walking his dog when he “randomly started yelling” at them,...

PORTLAND, Ore. — After several months, the city of Portland said it has recovered the $6.7 million in public funds after it was diverted in a fraud scheme. The criminal investigation is still in progress. Those funds were allocated for the Bull Run Filtration Project, an effort to build...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for a violent assault on a MAX platform that shocked riders and raised concerns about transit safety. Joseph Naes, 40, was sentenced earlier this week in Multnomah County Circuit Court to 70 months in...

A crash left four people hospitalized and temporarily closed a stretch of highway near Glenwood late Saturday morning, officials said.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Rose City Detox Center is working to establish a new facility along SE Holgate near SE 127th Ave. That’s right next door to Gilbert Heights Elementary School which has brought out concerns from local parents and the community. It would literally share a fence line with the school.

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — The Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS), Child Welfare Division, is seeking the public's assistance in locating 11-year-old Sophia Alonzo, a child in foster care who went missing from Portland on August 28. Sophia Alonzo is described as 5 foot 2, weighing 125 pounds, with...