Portland OR

A somber update has emerged concerning the stabbing incident that took place at Dawson Park in Northeast Portland. The victim has been identified as Talmage L. Ellis, 57, a resident of the city. The Portland Police Bureau released a statement confirming the identity of the deceased, following the conclusion of a...

Alix Rabbas was on her feet all day. From dropping off heavy bags at a storage facility to making it to a day center in time for lunch, she had been running errands across town since dawn. At 7 p.m. on a recent Tuesday, the 58-year-old stood in line with a dozen other women outside a downtown Portland shelter.

Police have publicly identified two men killed in separate homicides in Portland last weekend. Cesar Alejandro Cuevas-Morales, 32, of Venezuela, was shot to death in the 3400 block of Southeast 130th Avenue around 3:40 a.m. on Saturday, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement. Officers found him dead at...

Portland recorded nine homicides in September — the most of any month so far this year. The next highest toll came in March, when the deaths of eight people prompted police Chief Bob Day to declare the level of violence “unacceptable.”. To be sure, the number of homicides...

PORTLAND, OR — With 166 Oregon National Guard members preparing to deploy to Portland next week, the city’s activists have found themselves in an unexpected debate: who will earn the historic right to be the first to spray-paint an armored vehicle?. According to eyewitnesses, the conflict erupted during...

I really don’t think Portland needs federal troops. But let’s also stop pretending the small subset of violent protesters out there night after night are somehow the good guys. They’re not. I’ve watched them up close in Seattle. They show up with recording equipment, even a smartphone,...

Two crashes just 48 hours apart along Oregon 212 in Boring killed three people and collapsed a building this week. The second crash happened around 6 a.m. Tuesday when a car went off the road and plowed into a building in the 28000 block of Southeast Oregon 212, the Clackamas County Fire Department said in a statement.

PORTLAND, Oregon — Dr. Jane Goodall, the famed chimpanzee researcher and conservationist, has died at 91. Goodall, best known for her groundbreaking studies of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania, died of natural causes in California, the Jane Goodall Institute announced Wednesday. Her decades-long research continues to...

The city of Portland and Multnomah County are both staring down significant state and federal funding cuts that could impact their homeless shelter systems — potentially leading to the reduction of beds, emergency rent assistance and other housing services. Why it matters: Huge cuts in direct services will ripple...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A routine night patrol over Portland skies turned dangerous last weekend when a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter was struck by a laser beam, temporarily threatening the safety of the pilot and crew. Federal officials say the laser originated from a Portland residence on the evening...