Portland OR

After a story about the Milwaukie-Portland Elks Lodge appeared in The Oregonian and on OregonLive last week, lodge leaders received more than 40 phone calls and emails from prospective members that weekend. “All of them said, ‘I saw The Oregonian article and we’ve been interested in joining for years. Now...

Portland journalist and zine maker Shay Mirk loves comics. “I always like just making comics as a fun kind of side hobby. I would spend all my weekends photocopying stuff that I’ve made and distributing it out to people,” they said. From their North Portland home, Mirk creates...

Portland, Ore. – Southbound Interstate-5 is now closed, between I-405 and I-84, as Oregon’s Department of Transportation undertakes a massive maintenance and repair project the agency says is long overdue. Saturday morning, nearly 12 hours after the closure, ODOT reports no major issues. The shutdown occurred overnight

On Saturday morning, Jeremy Tellock and Nicole Harvey were bound for the Oregon Convention Center, where hundreds of people were gathering for Rose City Comic Con. They work in media production for large events like Comic Con. But that wasn’t easy to guess from the small gear bag Tellock was carrying, as they sat on a

First, there was the "skinny house." With the city's population increasing in the early aughts, these were the best option for fitting a home on a narrow, 25-by-100-foot lot, and they started popping up like mushrooms in between Portland's older housing stock. There was backlash, objections to their awkward tall propor

A play that made Broadway history is coming to downtown Portland for just three nights this October, and the local production's executive producer is a familiar name in corporate diversity circles: Jarvis Sam. “Thoughts of a Colored Man” will run October 1 through 3, 2026, at the Brunish Theatre.

The Elakha Alliance, an Oregon nonprofit working to restore sea otters to the Oregon Coast, invites the public to celebrate Sea Otter Awareness Month this September, culminating in Sea Otter Awareness Week (SOAW), September 20–26, 2026. While sea otters are not currently found along the Oregon Coast, the month-long cel

Portland Fire & Rescue crews were dispatched Friday evening to reports of an apartment fire in the Mt. Tabor neighborhood. The extent of injuries, damage, or the fire's cause had not been disclosed as of this writing. The dispatch came in a post from Portland Fire & Rescue. , which...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A woman was sent to the hospital and a suspect was detained after police responded to a reported shooting in Northeast Portland on Saturday afternoon. The shooting reportedly happened in the 5800 block of Northeast 112th Avenue. “Officers were dispatched to a report that a woman was on a multi-u

Construction crews have been remodeling space inside the Raleigh Hills Fred Meyer since August, and by October, shoppers there will be able to grab a slice without leaving the store. Abby's Legendary Pizza, the Roseburg-based chain marking its 62nd year in business, is opening its second grocery-store location in Washi