Grand Jury Finds Clackamas County Deputy Justified in Boring Incident Involving Local Resident
A Clackamas County grand jury found that Deputy Lindsay Bailey was justified in using deadly force during an incident with Daniel Dale Zimmerman in Boring, Oregon, last month. The grand jury reached this decision unanimously on December 10, 2025, after reviewing evidence and testimony from the November 9 event.
💔 Presso Coffee Closes Its Vancouver, WA Location
After seven years of serving up coffee, community, and memories, Presso Coffee’s Vancouver location is closing its doors for good. Owner Izzy Pavlenko shared on Instagram Reel that the decision comes from a desire to focus on family and downsize, a bittersweet choice that has left locals feeling nostalgic and...
Starbucks Workers Rally One Month Into Strike
Roughly four dozen people—including three Portland City Councilors—gathered at the Oregon Convention Center’s northeastern amphitheater on Dec. 13 for a rally in support of striking Starbucks workers. Saturday’s rally marked one month since the beginning of the strike, which now includes 10 Portland-area locations, a...
High-speed chase ends in crash in Portland’s Lloyd District, suspect breaks iconic clock
PORTLAND, Ore. — A 49-year-old man is facing several charges, including DUI, hit-and-run, forgery and meth possession, after a high-speed chase along Interstate 84 ended with a crash in Portland’s Lloyd District on Thursday night. The incident started at about 11 p.m. Thursday when TriMet Transit Police saw...
Dog Bites Man, But the Dog Was in Portland, and the Man Was David...
I’m old enough to remember when the national media loved Portland, or at least found us adorable, worthy of fawning pieces about food carts and a zeitgeisty-but-mid sketch comedy series. I’m also old enough to remember when the national media started hating us, because that was just a few years ago. But the hits keep...
Readers Respond to Multnomah County Homeless Spending Success
In the Frank Capra classic It’s a Wonderful Life, the despairing do-gooder George Bailey is shown a vision of the miserable hellscape his hometown would become had he never been born. Multnomah County officials have their own George Bailey complex—overlooked, unthanked, subject to abusive tirades—but no guardian...
Foster-Powell liquor store owner badly hurt in ‘grab-and-run’
On Friday evening, October 31, at about 6:45 p.m., three youthful-looking masked men strolled into the Powell Liquor Store, on the corner of S.E. Powell Boulevard and 52nd Avenue – but they weren’t customers, they were thieves. Security video recorded the trio entering briskly, snatching booze off shelves,...
Portland man to spend 30 years in prison for robbery, shooting at police while...
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland man will spend the next 30 years in prison after he was convicted in a robbery case, and of shooting at two Portland Police officers who were trying to stop him. A grand jury found Christian Fitz-Henry, 31, guilty back in March of two...
‘Light is stronger than darkness:’ Oregon Jewish leaders up security at Hanukkah events after...
Oregon Jewish groups are adding security to their Hanukkah celebrations tonight, but the largest events in the state all plan to go ahead. About 1,000 people usually gather in Portland’s Pioneer Square to light a large black Hanukkah menorah and eat the traditional latkes, or potato pancakes, to begin the eight-day...
Rob Reiner, whose film ‘Stand by Me’ shaped Oregon movie history, dies
Rob Reiner, the celebrated actor and director who’s 1986 film “Stand By Me” helped put Oregon on the map for Hollywood filming, has died. According to the Los Angeles Times, Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, 68, were found dead in their Brentwood, California home on Sunday, Dec. 14. Their deaths are...

















