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Portland could close nearly 450 permanent sleeping spots for homeless people, or about a quarter of its pod shelters, overnight-only beds and RV safe parking spots, according to a staff presentation delivered at a City Council budget meeting Tuesday. Under the budget proposed by Mayor Keith Wilson, Portland’s street se

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Summer-like heat helped cook Portland’s atmosphere enough to produce storms capable of lightning Tuesday evening. The thunderstorm activity is possible over the Cascades and parts of the Willamette Valley Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. The thunderstorm threat fades Wednesday as temperatur

UPDATE: Margery has been found safe in Portland, the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office says. Deputies in Clackamas County are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing 78-year-old woman with cognitive issues. Margery Ellen Dietrich was last seen on Tuesday at about 5:20 p.m. near Southeast 90th Avenue...

Drivers headed out for a Memorial Day weekend excursion in Oregon should remain cautious on one route in particular. A new study from transportation analytics company INRIX shows a troubling trend for Portland drivers over the holiday weekend: a clear uptick in crashes among drivers leaving the metropolitan area for th

West Linn’s Dean Suhr is considering moving to a warmer, more politically moderate state. “I’ve raised my kids here,” said Suhr, 68, a semi-retired entrepreneur. “I’ve had a good life up here. But as we’re getting older and our income becomes more fixed, we need to look at how we can make what we’ve got stashed away la

A lot of words have been used to describe Oregon City since its founding in 1829. There’s “first,” as in the first city west of the Rockies to be incorporated (in 1844). Also, there’s “last,” as in the last stop on the Oregon Trail.

One of downtown Portland’s most photographed faces is officially up for grabs. Jackson Tower, the 12-story, clock-topped beaux-arts landmark that looks out over Pioneer Courthouse Square, has been listed for sale, putting a historic slice of the city’s skyline on the block as owners and lenders wrestle with what to do

Portland had itself quite a Saturday night. What started as an illegal street takeover involving roughly 100 people at a Northeast Portland intersection spiraled into a multisite cat-and-mouse chase, a foot pursuit, and an aerial ... Read more

A case of whooping cough has Portland’s Grant High School on alert. In a letter Monday to the school community, health officials from Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties warned that someone with the bacterial infection also known as pertussis had spent time at the Northeast Portland school. The letter...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - The Portland Police Bureau’s Air Support Unit (ASU) assisted officers in making two separate arrests late Monday night. The first arrest happened after 10 p.m. when police said a man stole a car in the area of Southwest 4th Avenue and Southwest Washington Street. The ASU followed the car on Inte