Portland OR

Bike. Two generators. Chair. Table. Bike, wheelchair. Walker. Crutches, cooler, baby stroller. These are a few of the items taken during recent sweeps of homeless encampments in Portland, according to the city’s latest data. In the first six months of Mayor Keith Wilson’s tenure, homeless sweeps by month outpaced...

A Portland man who gunned down a woman in front of her children two years ago on the day before Thanksgiving was sentenced to 29 years in state prison Tuesday. Richard D. Simms Jr. had been dating 40-year-old Nicole Davis — but any warmth he once felt had been poisoned by murderous rage when he pulled out the handgun...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland Mayor Keith Wilson held a public meeting on Tuesday night to address the city’s growing homelessness crisis. With the goal of creating 1500 shelter beds by Dec. 1, Wilson says housing and shelter are his top priorities. However, dozens of nonprofits and service providers voiced...

There’s a bright red door in Northwest Portland that might as well have a sign saying “Abandon your diet, all ye who enter here.”. This portal to breakfast nirvana belongs to Stepping Stone Café, a Portland institution where the omelets are so magnificent they should have their own Instagram account.

A century ago, students in Northwest Portland’s Linnton neighborhood attended classes in a brick building overlooking the Willamette River between the emerald St. Johns Bridge and Sauvie Island farmland. The 1928 Georgian-style school with high ceilings and oversized windows was saved from demolition and converted...

Several people were injured following a crash in Lake Oswego on Sunday night, authorities said.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A West Linn woman is safe after she went missing searching for rocks in the Maury Mountains. Valeria Puk, 65, was reported missing by her husband on Aug. 15 at 11 a.m. when she failed to return. Search and rescuers from the Crook County Sheriff’s Office were assisted by the Prineville […]

Officials have released the name of the man who died last weekend in a Multnomah County jail. Chad William Scott, 51, was found unresponsive around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday at Inverness Jail in Northeast Portland. Paramedics pronounced him dead after deputies and corrections health staff tried to revive him. Scott...

A 16-year-old boy was identified as the body recovered from the Columbia River on Thursday, after he accidentally drowned while swimming near Frenchman's Bar.

State and local officials said Tuesday they will not investigate allegations that a group of seven Portland city councilors broke transparency rules, citing a state law that provides only a narrow window in which grievances can be filed. The decision drew sharp criticism from experts, who warned the provision...