Portland OR

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – After a legal battle over public access to Oswego Lake, city officials are closing the lake for the Fourth of July holiday weekend. In a post announcing Fourth of July celebrations in the city, officials provided a lake access notice, stating access to Oswego Lake from Lower Millennium Plaza...

Oregon Police are on the hunt for a 42-year-old man who led them on a high-speed chase. Police in Oregon are on the hunt for a 42-year-old man who took them on a high-speed chase near Portland on Friday. Why is this police chase different than any other police chase?...

While Voodoo Doughnut shines due to its unique interior and delicious confections, it also became a Guinness World Record holder due to this eccentric event.

Portland’s commercial real estate crisis has arrived at the door of one the city’s most storied developers. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company sued John W. Russell for breach of contract on a $63 million loan for the “Black Box,” a 390,000-square-foot office building at 200 SW Market St. that sits atop a retail...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) – The person behind a number of jugs filled with urine left in public spaces in Oregon seems to have struck again. Multiple stories have covered the actions of someone who had been leaving the urine-filled jugs in Northeast Portland recycling bins. Residents have been left...

SOLVE is working to keep Portland clean this Wednesday with a Pride-themed event.

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A new daytime shelter will be opening in North Portland next month, bringing support services to the homeless people in the area. The “Drop-In Center” in the St. John’s neighborhood is designed to provide a safe space for those experiencing homelessness by offering resources to permanent...

Last month, Emma Gilliland’s dachshund Penny relieved herself on a Sellwood-Moreland lawn—and the tenant of the nearby home responded by smearing the dog’s feces through Gilliland’s hair, according to a police report. Now Gilliland is seeking $245,000 in civil damages from Leon Pluymaekers, who also faces...

OK, stop talking. Close your eyes. What do you hear?. Traffic? A train whistle? Sirens? Wailing? Peacocks screeching? The squealing tires of a street racing takeover?. If so, you might be in one of the quietest cities on Earth, at least according to a new study from a German-based mobile phone company called Sixt.

"Officers located him as he was walking to work and arrested him without incident," police said.