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The bodies of three members of a family who left their home in Portland, Ore., on Dec. 7, 1958, to gather evergreen branches to decorate their house for Christmas have been found more than six decades after they disappeared. The remains of Kenneth, 54, and Barbara Martin, 48, and their daughter Barbie Martin, 14, were […]

Nutritionist and author Rania Batayneh shares some fun and fresh Mother's Day recipes to help moms relax and take a break from the kitchen.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Behind the school pick-up lines and the packed lunches, there is a lot of love, and some very funny opinions of what motherhood means to them. With Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 10, AM Extra wanted to know how the youngest members of our community describe the women who do it all. Mia Villanueva visited a few local classrooms to...

Subscribe to OPB’s First Look to receive Northwest news in your inbox six days a week. For years, getting from point A to point B on the Warm Springs Reservation hasn’t been especially easy. But things just got a little better. OPB’s Kathryn Styer Martinez reports that a...

A new food truck pod, Couve Carts, is in the works in Vancouver. “The search for the best food trucks starts now,” said an Instagram post published by Andrey Bolokhovskiy back in September. “Comment your favorite FOOD TRUCK here in the Portland metro area.”. Thus began the Couve...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The St. Johns Bridge is closed to all traffic in both directions as police and fire crews respond to an emergency situation. The call went out just before 4 p.m. According to Portland Fire and Rescue, a person climbed over the railing on the bridge.

The Oregon Symphony is celebrating this week after a work co-commissioned by the Portland institution won a prestigious Pulitzer Prize. The 2026 Pulitzer Prize for music went to Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Picaflor: A future myth,” an orchestral work that depicts an original story inspired by Andean Peruvian mythology, reimagined in a futuristic setting.

Ask not why the chicken crossed the road, but how much that chicken – when basted, roasted at high heat and deliciously seasoned – is worth. The New York Times recently reported on a restaurant in Brooklyn selling half a rotisserie chicken for $40. Even for New York City, that’s expensive enough to get noticed.

Gresham residents are coming to terms with a major change to their water, as the city continues to debut a system overhaul. After years of work, Gresham and Rockwood, partnered as the Cascadia Groundwater Alliance, officially switched from getting potable water from the Bull Run Reservoir to the sand-and-gravel aquifer. The change began in late March.

The Lake Oswego Police Department arrested John Parks, the former Lake Oswego High School track and field coach who subsequently filed a federal lawsuit against the Lake Oswego School District, for criminally trespassing during a track event at the school on Thursday, May 7. “Lake Oswego Communications (LOCOM) received a...