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Support Local, Get Rewarded: Portland entrepreneur offers 50% discount incentive

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — You’ve heard it time and time again: “Support local!” One local business owner is taking that message a step further by offering incentives for people who shop local in Portland. In an Instagram post Tuesday, business owner and artist Mike Bennett encouraged...
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Hillsboro council clash over data centers sparks calls for resignation: ‘All I did was...

A Hillsboro City Council meeting Tuesday erupted in chaos and prompted two members of the council to publicly call on another to resign as the suburban Washington County community remains engulfed in a public reckoning over the role of data centers and the tax incentives that attract them. In a...
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Former Multnomah Co. Prosecutor Shares Thoughts On Kyron Horman Disappearance

Portland, Ore. – Sixteen years ago this month, second grader Kyron Horman vanished from Skyline Elementary School in Northwest Portland. Kyron Horman’s disappearance on June 4th, 2010 sparked the largest and most extensive search in Oregon history with multiple local, state and federal agencies involved, and thousands
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Parents face charges after 2-year-old left in car on 92-degree day in Clark County

Last month, a 2-year-old had to be rescued from a parked vehicle after witnesses called 911. Deputies said the child was found strapped in a car seat inside a vehicle with the engine off and only a small crack in the window. It was 92 degrees outside. OTHER CLARK COUNTY...
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Heart-stopping video shows moment 2-year-old boy was rescued from hot car

The boy's parents are facing reckless endangerment charges, authorities said.
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Proposed rail merger raises traffic concerns in Portland’s Central Eastside

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Portlanders are learning more about a proposed rail merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern — a deal the companies say could improve the supply chain and lower shipping costs. But in Portland’s Central Eastside, residents and workers worry the merger could mean even more trains moving t
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‘Blazers may not stay’: MultCo commissioners set to discuss Moda Center money for first...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — As city leaders go back and forth on whether and how to use public money from the City of Portland to renovate the Moda Center, those same talks are happening at the county level. The state, the city and Multnomah County are all looking at teaming up to fund a nearly […]
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Portland Police identify man killed in hit-and-run in Buckman neighborhood

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Portland Police have identified a man who was killed during a hit-and-run crash in the Buckman neighborhood. According to PPB, 46-year-old Travis D. Petersen was hit by a car just before 3 a.m. on May 28 near SE Grand Avenue and SE Pine Street. Petersen was...
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Portland’s most overlooked neighbor has a fur trading fort, a Soviet plane, and 2.5M...

Fort Vancouver’s history goes deeper than you’d expect. Fort Vancouver National Historic Site sits on the north bank of the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington, and it’s the only National Park Service unit in the entire Portland-Vancouver metro area. Inside 207 acres, you get a reconstructed fur...
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Vancouver multifamily property trades for $35.45 million

A Portland-based business has purchased a 160-unit apartment complex in Vancouver, Washington, for $35.45 million. Mark Desbrow’s Green Light Housing snapped up the Carriage House Apartments in a transaction that values the Southwest Washington asset at $221,563 per unit. Green Light has transitioned from developing ma

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