Nice weekend, few storms east
Overall, the weekend looks pretty nice! Westerly winds will continue to push wildfire smoke out of the valleys. Expect to wake up to morning cloud cover before gradually transitioning over to sunshine during the afternoon. Temperatures today will climb into the lower 80s. Expect very similar conditions for Sunday, but
Lloyd’s not dead yet, at least for these businesses
Thousands of people packed the Lloyd Center on Aug. 8 to celebrate and mourn 60 years of history for the large shopping mall on Portland’s East Side. Homemade signs hung from the mall’s three-story atrium and parking garage, proclaiming “Lloyd’s Not Dead.”. For three businesses, Lloyd...
Portland Just Pledged $586 Million Toward an Arena. The Team Hasn’t Agreed to Anything...
Portland City Council voted 8-4 on Wednesday to approve a nonbinding term sheet committing up to $120 million in city funds toward renovating the Moda Center, home of the Trail Blazers, according to Front Office Sports. Combined with $101 million approved by Multnomah County the week before and $365 million in state bo
Clear Waters Offer Excellent Coastal Salmon Action
There’s a bit of a lull for metro anglers this time of year, with the end of the spring Chinook fishery, and pre-Willamette coho and mainstem Columbia fall Chinook. Most metro anglers are working coastal options and coming home rewarded with a variety of species. It’s all bass and...
Portland Public Schools loses 2 top administrators less than 2 weeks before school starts
With the start of the school year less than two weeks away, Portland Public Schools is losing two key members of Superintendent Kimberlee Armstrong’s cabinet. They are among the first senior leaders to depart since Armstrong first took office in July 2024. Their departures come on the heels of significant reorganizatio
The New York Times names 2 Northeast Portland spots among best Mexican restaurants in...
Ki’ikibáa and Mis Tacones were part of the list of 41 restaurants throughout the nation.
1 dead, 2 injured after overnight shooting in SE Portland
One person was killed and two others were injured in a shooting in SE Portland early Saturday morning, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
‘There’s all kinds of memes now’: Owner of goats who boarded TriMet bus speaks
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Southeast Portland man named Lrae Anderson said the goats riding the TriMet bus in the now viral video are his. Anderson said his goats have left the yard before, but going that far from home was a first for them. To no surprise, Abdellah...
Major crash snarls traffic on southbound I-5 between Tigard and Tualatin
TIGARD, Ore. (KATU) — Drivers dealt with major delays following a crash on the southbound side of Interstate 5 between Tigard and Tualatin, Friday evening. The crash happened on SB I-5 near the SW Lower Boones Ferry Road Exit 290 just before 5 p.m.. Details about the crash have...
Washington Park Reservoir Opens One Year Late
The Washington Park Reservoir is once-in-a-generation project that provides a seismically resilient water supply for 360,000 westside water users and a beautiful new reflecting pool and plaza for the entire community to enjoy. The Water Bureau replaced the original open-air reservoirs with a 12.4-million-gallon undergr
