Portland OR

A blame game between current and former top Portland officials has intensified over their failure to notify the City Council for months of millions of dollars in unspent funds that could have been paying for emergency rent assistance, eviction defense or other housing aid. Helmi Hisserich, the recently ousted head...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — This weekend, Oregon's most prominent teachers' union, the Oregon Education Association (OEA), will be teaching educators how to keep ICE away from students in schools. "We will be talking about how to prepare for the presence of ICE. We'll be talking about what to do...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A ban on gas-powered leaf blowers in Portland is set to go into effect in the new year. Starting Jan. 1, 2026, gas-powered leaf blowers will be banned on public and private property throughout the city. For the next two years, crews can still use them...

Portland Fire & Rescue has issued a fire code violation at a Habitat for Humanity housing complex in Southeast Portland due to blocked fire access and other life-safety issues, which residents have been raising for nearly two years.

On Tuesday, job postings began circulating online hinting that the federal government may open a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Portland.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Residents and business owners are calling for action in the St.Johns neighborhood. This comes as a new online petition is making its rounds online, asking leaders to move the location of the North Portland Day Center. Right now, the day center sits at 9000 N....

Portland City Councilors have spent the past 11 months allowing Mayor Keith Wilson to roll out his solutions to the city’s homeless crisis without criticism or impediment. But just days after Wilson’s self-imposed Dec. 1 deadline to end unsheltered homelessness, several councilors are calling for a change of course.

An oversight group for the Portland police's team to reduce gun violence in the Rose City held its annual community listening session on Thursday evening.

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The clock is ticking this week for everyone living at a homeless camp at the former location of Assembly Brewing in southeast Portland. “We knew that the place had shut down and we thought it’s got a cover, it’s got roof, it’s got cement flooring, it’s protection, it was starting to get cold,...

Gov. Tina Kotek stands with Portland leaders and Portland Police Chief Bob Day at a press conference in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. She highlighted similar experience when announcing her 2026 bid for reelection on Thursday. (Photo by Alex Baumhardt/Oregon Capital Chronicle) Gov. Tina Kotek formally...