Vancouver WA

A notorious Portland nightclub owner convicted of murdering a 21-year-old employee in 1990 was taken into custody in Clackamas County on Friday, according to jail records. Larry Hurwitz, 71, is being held at the Clackamas County Jail on charges of fourth-degree assault on a domestic partner and parole violation. He...

Health inspectors identified several Multnomah County restaurants with food safety violations in the first half of January. The county’s public health department conducts unannounced, semiannual inspections of food-service establishments to assess compliance with health codes across three categories:. Priority items:...

North and Northeast Portlanders are used to a certain level of noise. With major freeways, an airport and a racetrack nearby, the roar of a loud engine is part of everyday life. But some residents (including this Piedmont local) have reported noisier-than-normal aircraft sounds — enough to rattle houses and...

With the current school year almost at its halfway point, school districts around Oregon have begun looking ahead to next year. The picture isn’t pretty. In Portland, district leaders have released an early draft of how they would close a $50 million budget gap that includes 288 fewer employees overall, including 180...

It’s been just over two months since Portland police began ticketing people for camping on public property. Now, the impact that the city’s new penalty has had on the criminal justice system — and those ticketed — is beginning to come into focus. Court data reviewed...

The Portland Water Bureau is back in the spotlight after its recent detection of Cryptosporidium in the city's primary drinking water source, Bull Run Watershed; traces of the parasite were found in multiple samples over a four-day span. According to a report from the Water Bureau, one Cryptosporidium oocyst was...

If you’re interested in exploring wildlife in Portland, Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge is one of your best bets. The 163-acre floodplain wetland is located on the east bank of the Willamette River, just north of the Sellwood Bridge. The largest remaining natural area in the lower Willamette River floodplain, it’s made...

Crews are battling a fire at a SE Portland home early Wednesday morning.

Trap Door Brewing’s third location Prairie View Station is sitting high on our most anticipated upcoming beer projects of 2026. In a time of craft beer industry retraction the 10-year-old Trap Door Brewing is a current success story. First opened as a small brewery taproom in downtown Vancouver in 2015, Trap Door...

PORTLAND, OR — A Portland veterinarian has been sentenced to five years of supervised probation after admitting she diverted controlled substances for personal use and replaced them with saline, compromising the treatment of hundreds of animals. According