Hillsboro puts 4-month pause on building, expanding data centers in the city
It’ll be at least four months before Hillsboro sees another data center development underway. At a Monday, July 27, special meeting, the Hillsboro City Council unanimously agreed to place a 120-day moratorium on new data center and battery energy storage systems in the city. Until at least Nov. 24,...
City staffer threatens to sue Portland councilor over alleged retaliatory firing
A former staffer for Portland City Councilor Candace Avalos claims she was fired in retaliation for reporting sexual harassment at work. And she’s planning to sue. In a legal notice sent to the city Friday, an attorney representing Sabina Urdes signaled her intent to file a lawsuit due to the “financial harm and severe
Vancouver police union: Policy change creates ‘liability’ for law enforcement
VANCOUVER, Wash. (KATU) — The police officer's union in Vancouver, Washington, is calling on residents to speak before the City Council tonight about a recent policy change on misdemeanor prosecution. Last week, KATU reported that the city attorney's office issued a memo announcing it is "limiting the types of...
Watch: New Oregon housing law causing controversy in West Linn
A lawyer for two West Linn residents says the new public hearings law is "blatantly unconstitutional."
Man shot by Border Patrol agent in Portland pleads guilty to property damage
Luis Niño-Moncada will be sentenced to time served and deported to Venezuela after ramming a federal car in January. An aggravated assault charge will be dismissed under the plea deal.
Judge sentences 62-year-old to life after jury convicts him in girlfriend’s killing
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A Multnomah County judge sentenced a 62-year-old man to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of murdering his girlfriend. He was convicted July 23 for murder in the second degree constituting domestic violence and unlawful use of a weapon constituting domestic violence involving his then
Shuttered Parkrose Grocery Outlet owner fund raising for new store in food desert
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The former owner of a now-shuttered Grocery Outlet in the Parkrose neighborhood is raising money to open a new, locally owned community grocery store in the East Portland food desert. The grocery store at 10721 NE Sandy Blvd. closed at the end of June, marking...
New ‘Parkrose Grocery’ envisioned to replace now-closed Grocery Outlet
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A campaign is underway in the Parkrose Neighborhood in Northeast Portland to launch a new grocery store at the vacant building of a former Grocery Outlet. Don McKeever, the former owner of the Grocery Outlet, is behind this new store called Parkrose Grocery. He is asking the community’s help wit
City Ordered to Pay $717,000 to Portland Family Whose Home Was Crushed by a...
A jury has awarded $717,000 in damages to a family whose Southwest Portland home was crushed by a falling tree in 2024 after they had begged the city for two years to let them cut it down. On Friday, jurors in a Multnomah County Circuit courtroom delivered the verdict in...
WinCo pickpocket sentenced to three years in prison
A man linked to pickpocket thefts in WinCo parking lots was sentenced Friday, July 24, to three years in prison. Lucian Sulitanu caused losses of at least $118,088 to 16 victims in Oregon and elsewhere, according to court documents. He is 39 years old, according to online prison records. Sulitanu...
