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With another round of deep budget reductions ahead, Battle Ground Public Schools invited the community to weigh in on what should be protected for students. The district hosted the first of two ...

Kuky Nutter, a resident of the Battle Ground area since 1943, celebrated her 103rd birthday surrounded by family, friends and classic tunes played by the Dove Creek Band at Mallard Landing Assisted

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Supporters of scientific research gathered for a rally in Portland Saturday as part of a nationwide day of events, with organizers saying they are pushing back against what they see as threats to science funding, evidence-based medicine and academic freedom. Keith Eddins, an organizer of...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A ballot initiative that would divert 25% of Portland’s clean energy tax revenue to police staffing has cleared an initial legal hurdle and will move forward with signature gathering. The Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund (PCEF) was passed by voters in 2018, creating...

TriMet’s plan to build bus-only lanes on about seven miles of Southeast 82nd Avenue is an outstandingly bad idea, (“One of Portland’s busiest streets may get a dramatic overhaul. Not everyone is on board,” Feb. 12). Adding these Business Access and Transit — BAT — lanes...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Fired bureau directors are leaving Portland with hundreds of thousands of dollars in severance payments, as the city stares down another massive budget hole in the upcoming fiscal year. The payments alarm at least one Portland city councilor, who told KATU the city is leaning...

A Woodland man was arrested last month in connection with the death of a Vancouver woman whose body was discovered on state forest land near the Tarbell Trailhead in eastern Clark County. 

This story is Part 1 of “Getting by on Burnside,” an ongoing series from The Oregonian/OregonLive that uses Burnside Street – the only road that extends uninterrupted from the city’s eastern to western limits – to explain the facets of Portland’s housing crunch. Burnside...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Another small chance of seeing some low elevation snow will occur late tonight and early Tuesday morning as colder air moves into the area. “We’re going to see limited showers, and actually it looks pretty dry,” Storm Tracker 2 Meteorologist Rhonda Shelby said. “Cold air offshore will settle...

2026 Readers Choice winner: An artistic yearning led an Estacada businesswoman to an award-winning career change. Katie Hegner was working as a corrections officer, but nearly a decade into the role, she was feeling burned out. It was long hours, and it wasn’t scratching that artistic itch she had ever since those...