Portland OR

Before food carts were a viable path for Portland chefs looking to introduce new cuisines or showcase their culinary skill, tiny restaurants served a similar purpose. Souvlaki Queen, a new Greek restaurant with a tight menu of souvlaki (meat skewers), salads, pita, spanakopita and baklava, is taking that older route,...

GLADSTONE, Ore. — The Gladstone Police Department said a person who was filmed slashing tires in the area overnight has been identified, with charges pending. Earlier Wednesday, the police department released videos on their Facebook page, showing a person slashing tires, asking the public to help identify them by...

Portland is flat-out soaked this Thursday, March 12, with steady rain, low clouds and patchy fog keeping temperatures parked near 48°F at PDX. The wet stretch is locked in through Friday, with periods of heavy rain and spotty street flooding likely across low-lying neighborhoods. Flood watches now cover much of the...

Last weekend I found a bar that feels like stepping into a horror movie, and I couldn’t help but stay for the whole night. The moment I walked in, the walls were covered in eerie masks and the bar itself looked like a graveyard altar. The bartenders, dressed as...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The owner of Elephants Delicatessen in Northwest Portland, which was badly damaged by a fire earlier this week says the suspect in the blaze was known to staff. Catherine Stough, 56, turned herself in to fire investigators near the scene on Tuesday. She said she...

This Portland-based facility is snagging up plastic cannabis containers across the state and turning them into nursery pots and more. P3 Distributing, located in Portland, just outside of Milwaukie, is Oregon’s most established and extensive recycling system for cannabis packaging. Owner Patrick Caldwell started the...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — An atmospheric river that has pummeled the Pacific Northwest this week, causing flooding and landslides, has broken rainfall records. “This Atmospheric River event is one for the record books,” KATU Storm Tracker 2 Meteorologist Dave Salesky posted on social media on Thursday afternoon....

GRESHAM, Ore. (KPTV) - The Oregon Health Authority identified a grocery store in Gresham as a measles exposure site on Thursday evening. Shoppers who visited the WinCo Foods at 2511 SE 1st St between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. on March 7 may have been exposed to measles, according to OHA.

Marcos Cordova Meza was no stranger to the night scene at Portland’s landmark Sandy Hut Bar & Lounge after nearly two years working shifts as a barback, helping wash dishes and stock liquor. While it sometimes got rowdy, he said, he’d never known it to get violent. He certainly...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A dog that was rescued from a water retention pond in Happy Valley late last month has been successfully adopted, city officials said. The dog was named Sweetie by her rescuers with the Clackamas Fire District and Happy Valley Police after she was found in two feet of water in the […]