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PORTLAND, Oregon — A man was injured in a reported stabbing near a Northeast Portland transit center Wednesday night, and police are searching for a suspect, according to the Portland Police Bureau. Officers responded to reports of a heavy police presence near the Northeast 82nd Avenue MAX station, identified...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A man arrested on attempted murder charges after allegedly pushing someone in front of a MAX train is set to change his plea and be sentenced, KATU has learned. The incident happened May 21, 2024, in front of Providence Park and was captured on CCTV...

Seeking to close a major funding gap, Multnomah County’s top elected leader suggests cutting 166 full-time jobs, closing more than 600 homeless shelter beds and reducing funds for a county-sponsored afterschool program by more than $1 million. Chair Jessica Vega Pederson released her proposed budget Thursday morning, saying the...

GRESHAM, Ore. (KATU) — Gresham police are calling on the community to help find a missing 74-year-old woman with dementia. Geraldine Parker was last seen Tuesday evening around six near Powell and 182nd Avenue. Staff at her care facility say she was last seen using a rideshare service to...

LAKEWOOD, Wash. — Authorities say a Clark County patient who escaped from Western State Hospital in Lakewood earlier this month has been captured and booked into the Pierce County Jail. Joshua Dylan Rice was taken into custody by the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday morning. Rice had...

A Sunday evening drive on U.S. Highway 30 turned deadly near Rainier when a head-on collision killed a Scappoose man and left two other people hospitalized. The crash, which happened shortly after 7 p.m., shut down the highway for hours as first responders and troopers worked the scene and began piecing together how one vehicle ended up crossing the center line.

A family, once forced to sleep in the bushes, was helped into permanent housing by Gresham's Homeless Services Team—work now facing uncertainty as county budget cuts loom.

Batten down the hatches Portland. Wednesday’s weather will be wet and windy in the valleys and dump snow across the Cascades. The National Weather Service says the incoming cold-frontal boundary, and a wide band of precipitation that dropped across northwest Oregon early in the day, will lower snow levels to around 1,500-2,000 feet as a cold airmass moves in behind the front...

WW reported Tuesday evening that Ivory Mathews, CEO of Home Forward, spent more than $100,000 in public dollars traveling to conferences and events over a three-year period. Her travel took place while the housing authority, tasked with providing 7,000 affordable apartments and thousands more housing vouchers to low-income Portlanders, was experiencing financial challenges and failing to fill vacant apartments on a timely...

Attorneys for the Portland man accused of shooting another father outside a Southwest Portland school at pick-up time two years ago said their client had been the target of “mocking language” and “very aggressive behavior” from the injured man. Noureddine Dib, 43, faces charges including attempted...