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TIGARD, Ore. (KPTV) - A truck carrying milk and juice flipped onto its side on the Interstate 5 ramp to Oregon Route 217 early Monday morning. The Tigard Police Department said the driver of a box truck lost control on the curve of the I-5/OR-217 overpass at about 5:30 a.m. The truck flipped onto its side, skidding for

WOOD VILLAGE Ore. (KPTV) - A 61-year-old woman has been missing from her Wood Village care home since Saturday, according to the sheriff’s office. According to the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, Janet Lee Gray left her care facility near Northeast 238th Drive and Northeast Halsey Street and has not returned.

There are certain places in Oregon that make you stop talking for a minute. Not because there isn't anything to say, but because your brain is too busy trying to process what your eyes are seeing. Larch Mountain is one of those places. Tucked high above the Columbia River Gorge east of Portland, this mountain […]

PORTLAND, Ore. — Monday marks 46 years since the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens, one of the most destructive volcanic events in U.S. history. On May 18, 1980, the Washington volcano erupted with tremendous force, killing 57 people and devastating roughly 210 square miles of wilderness in the Cascade Range.

This spring I came across a project that I find, for whatever reason, fascinating: A commercial conversion in NE Portland, with the goal of transforming a house into a cafe—and possibly a bookstore. It’s a triplex that was built in 1905 and sits on the corner of NE Glisan and 30th Avenue in the Kerns neighborhood.

A plaque outside the iconic drag venue Darcelle XV Showcase that honored the club’s recognition in the National Register of Historic Places was vandalized last week. Jeremy Corvus-Peck, owner of the club, posted Friday on Facebook about the “vile hate speech.”. The plaque commemorates the club’s original owner,...

A new measles exposure location has been identified in Happy Valley, and Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and Clackamas County public health officials are urging people to talk to a health care provider about their risks if they believe they were exposed. People might have been exposed if they were at...

I am KOIN 6 Meteorologist Steve Pierce. I’m a third-generation and native resident of Vancouver, Washington, who personally lived through the eruption of Mount Saint Helens on May 18, 1980. As I reflect back on that day long ago, I would like to share with you the story of that day through my own reflections. […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Neighbors and homeless advocates in Multnomah Village rallied Sunday, May 17 outside SAGE Flowers to oppose Mayor Keith Wilson’s proposal to convert the Multnomah Safe Rest Village into a high-barrier recovery center, arguing the change could displace vulnerable residents and comes as the city’s

A new East County Library opened May 16 at 475 Northwest Division Street in Gresham.