Portland OR

A fight between two women at Pioneer Elementary School in Vancouver ended with one woman shot in the foot and another woman arrested for assault.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland city councilors will vote on Thursday on whether or not to give $3.75 million to a family whose son was wrongfully shot in the back by a police officer on November 19, 2022. The family of Immanueal Jaquez Clark-Johnson sued the City of Portland and...

PORTLAND, Ore. — All available Portland Police units descended on the Old Town Neighborhood with lights flashing and sirens blaring when a small contingent of officers came under threat from a hostile crowd. The policemen were trying to attend to a couple who had been shot in a parking...

In what culminated as a peaceful demonstration, Portland witnessed a protest march that wrapped up without any incidents of damage or injuries, as reflected in the Portland Police Bureau's latest update. The march, which began at Tom McCall Waterfront Park and wound its way through the Downtown Portland neighborhood,...

A longer version of this article appeared in The Columbian and The Daily News. The Interstate 5 Bridge Replacement Program recently cleared another bureaucratic funding hurdle when Metro, Portland’s regional governing body, voted to spend $1.9 billion in funding that had already been awarded to the project. The vote...

A Washington County sheriff’s deputy has filed a $23 million lawsuit against the owners of a Tualatin apartment complex — claiming they failed to provide warning of a tenant who ambushed him in a burst of gunshots when he tried to serve an eviction notice. Charles Dozé was...

Martha Coleman's home in Montavilla has turned into an unlikely butterfly refuge over the last few months after she caught sight of an increasingly rare monarch in her yard. Why it matters: Monarchs — one of the most iconic and recognizable butterflies in the world — have seen precipitous declines in recent decades.

PORTLAND, Ore. — TriMet is closing the Skidmore Fountain MAX station downtown, saying the closure is aimed at speeding up Blue and Red line trains through downtown Portland. The station sits underneath the Burnside Bridge and iconic White Stag sign, and is the closest stop to the Portland Saturday Market.

With August starting, many students and parents in Oregon are probably wondering when it's time to go back to or start school. Here's when the first day of school is for some public K-12 schools and universities in Oregon. When does school start for Salem-Keizer Public Schools? The first day of school for...

On this August 2, Portland Fire Station 15 celebrated 100 years of service at the bungalow fire station at 1920 SW Spring Street.