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A man from Scappoose was sentenced to prison on Tuesday after breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s house and beating her with a hammer, authorities announced.

A new business with the same name as a Cajun seafood chain is coming to the city. A new liquor license application was submitted under the name The Kickin’ Crab, coming to 3846 SE 82nd Avenue. This will be in the Southeast Portland area in the former Izzy’s restaurant space. A timeline of opening has not been...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - Nine people were arrested during a stolen vehicle operation on Sunday, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The 61st Portland Metro Stolen Vehicle Operation focused on East Portland and the Gresham border. The stolen vehicle operation resulted in, according to police:. 7 stolen vehicles...

It's a question that has bedeviled dog owners — and owners of streetside trash cans — for as long as domesticated dogs have been defecating: what's the ethical thing to do with your pet's poop?. Why it matters: The vast majority of Axios Portland readers who responded to...

Oregon’s food scene goes way beyond Portland’s hipster cafes and fancy seafood joints. When I moved here five years ago, I stumbled upon a whole underground world of amazing steakhouses that don’t make it into tourist guidebooks. These hidden gems serve up some of the juiciest, most...

PORTLAND, Ore. — An Illegal immigrant has been sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to possession and conspiracy to distribute fentanyl in Oregon. Edis Odalis Centeno Banegas (45), a Honduran national living illegally in Portland, appeared in court on Monday and was also sentenced to three...

There’s something almost poetic about a classic American diner with chrome siding gleaming under Oregon’s often-cloudy skies. The Blue Moon Diner in Beaverton stands as a shining beacon of comfort food excellence in a world of trendy, here-today-gone-tomorrow eateries. You know those places worth setting your GPS...

One Pacific Northwest diner will take over for another at four locations around Oregon. A handful of now-defunct Shari’s Cafe & Pies locations will live again — in the form of an apparently more resilient Pacific Northwest diner chain. Elmer’s Restaurant will take over four former Shari’s diners...

With celebrity chef Gregory Gourdet off to conquer New York, this would have been the time for his Portland restaurant, Kann, to fall in our annual restaurant rankings. But after revisiting and reconsidering all 40 spots on last year’s list — plus a few dozen more — none stood out quite like Kann.

Weinstein is a retired educator, former longtime mayor of Ketchikan, Alaska, and former U.S. Senate staffer. He also ran in 2024 for Portland City Council, District 4. Portland’s working families are being squeezed from every angle, and City Hall keeps tightening the vise. What we’re witnessing isn’t just a series of...