Portland OR

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...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Interfaith spiritual leaders in Portland held a press conference Thursday to decry the tragedy in Minneapolis of a deadly shooting at a Catholic school on Wednesday and called for Oregon to refocus its gun violence reduction efforts. Robin Westman, 23, was identified as the suspect who is...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The suspect in the deadly shooting of Philip E. Redmon in the Overlook Neighborhood has been arrested. On Aug. 26, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested 38-year-old Andy J. Wright in San Francisco. Wright is currently held in a California jail, facing charges of...

OREGON CITY, Ore. (KPTV) - A 35-year-old man who was arrested following a two-hour standoff in Milwaukie was sentenced to 5 years in prison on Friday. Rian Keith Pittman pleaded guilty in Clackamas County court to two counts of unlawful use of a weapon and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A judge has ruled in favor of a Portland hotel maintenance worker seeking damages after a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, wearing a sweatshirt with a ‘hoodie’ over his head, pointed a handgun at his chest when he knocked on the hotel room door in response to a request to unblock a faulty...

The day after a standoff in NW Portland that lasted over four hours, police have identified the suspect who was taken into custody.

The Portland Police Bureau has released the identity of a man who perished after his vehicle veered off the road and into the Columbia River earlier this month. The tragic incident, which gripped local residents with a blend of sorrow and unease, has been subject to investigation since the fateful day when Guillermo...

State attorneys are preparing to pay $6 million to the families of two women who were killed by a man released from custody with an ankle monitor that had been set up to fail. The deaths of Gabriela Jimenez and Lenin Rosas Hernandez on Nov. 16, 2022 exposed a grave communication error between the Washington County...

PORTLAND, Ore. — For a dozen Portland families, what was supposed to be a new beginning has abruptly turned into disappointment. Home Forward, the public housing authority for Multnomah County, has paused the issuance of new Housing Choice Vouchers, leaving families who were promised assistance this fall without the...

Some drivers enduring rush-hour traffic are startled by motorcyclists zipping by them through traffic by “lane-splitting” – riding on the stripes between the traffic lanes. Not only is it illegal [Oregon Revised Statute 814.240] – but lane-splitting is also dangerous – as a biker learned while navigating...