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VANCOUVER, Wash. — A Vancouver teenager was arrested early Sunday on suspicion of strangling a woman, the Clark County Sheriff's Office reported. The suspect, identified in court documents as 17-year-old Kharma Douglas, was booked into Clark County Juvenile Court Detention on a second-degree murder charge. The...

Portland’s and Oregon’s leaders are right: don’t take the bait. The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to our city is designed to provoke exactly the kind of confrontation that would justify their presence. We’ve already seen federal forces deliberately provoke violence in Portland. Portland’s own police...

Lashawnda Shavers and Mercedes Moreno live at the Gray's Landing apartments not far from the ICE facility in South Portland. They're fed up with what the federal agents are doing to protesters, actions that directly impact them inside their homes.

A molecular biologist who grew up in Portland is one of the three researchers who won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. Mary E. Brunkow graduated from St. Mary’s Academy in downtown Portland in...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – A 17-year-old girl was arrested early Sunday after allegedly strangling a woman to death during a disturbance at a home in Vancouver’s Minnehaha neighborhood. The Clark County Sheriff’s Office says deputies responded to a 911 call around 12:30 a.m. Sunday reporting a physical disturbance at...

Portlanders are in for a treat tonight as the full Hunter's Moon rises over the city.

Late on Sunday, September 7, a speeding pickup truck veered off S.E. 52nd Avenue, two houses north of Raymond Street, into a home’s driveway – smashing into three parked vehicles there – and sending one of those cars partway into the kitchen and the basement of the residence.

On a regular Portland morning, an altercation turned into an officer-involved shooting that left a suspect injured and two East Precinct officers on administrative leave. According to an official update from the Portland Police Bureau, on September 20, 2025, officers were called to the 8400 block of Southeast Foster...

A train crashed into a logging truck near Canby Monday morning, officials said.

I have been following the efforts to encourage people to return to Portland, including initiatives to help the homeless, clean up the city and build new housing. These actions aim to make our city safer and more inviting. However, I am concerned that these positive changes may not be enough...