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A super PAC affiliated with Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) says it’s getting a full refund after a vendor mistakenly placed ads attacking her Democratic opponent, Troy Jackson, in the wrong state. Defending Main Street PAC earmarked around $25,000 for digital advertising that was accidentally spent in Portland, Oregon, instead of Collins’s home state of Maine, […]

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The Portland City Council is scheduled Wednesday to consider a broad zoning update intended to make it easier to build housing and encourage economic activity in the Central City. The proposal would change zoning rules and maps across Central City districts, including allowing housing in some...

Narcotics officers on Wednesday arrested an alleged drug runner with almost a pound of heroin and over $1,500 in cash, police say. Brayan Alberto Reyes Ramales, 24, is accused of two counts of delivering heroin and two counts of unlawful possession of heroin after the Westside Interagency Narcotics Team served a search warrant on Ramales’s travel trailer in the 13900 block of Southeast Woodward Street, in Portland.

A former demolition dumping ground on Northeast 82nd Avenue is undergoing a major transformation into a nature preserve and solar farm. In 2024, the Bird Alliance purchased a 12.5-acre piece of the lot, located just across the street from McDaniel High School. The site sits just west of the tree-dense Rocky Butte Natural Area, but the lot itself features mostly overgrown grass. Until the 1970s, the site was home to a quarry operated by Rose City Sand and Gravel, featuring an 80-foot excavation p

Sizzle Pie is closing its spot next to the Hollywood Theatre after Saturday, October 17, leaving the once-sprawling Portland pizza chain with just two locations standing. The closure ends Sizzle Pie's run as the operator of The Pie Hole, the pizza vendor window tucked alongside the lobby of the historic Northeast Portland theater, and it marks the latest contraction for a brand that once had about half a dozen locations spread across Portland and Beaverton.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A recent study led by Oregon Health and Science University found that late-night snacking could be bad for liver health. The study – published Friday in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology – found an increase in the correlation between people who reported late-night eating and a higher risk for developing two types of liver disease: metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and cirrhosis.

Washington breweries took home 17 medals at the 2026 Great American Beer Festival® (GABF) awards ceremony held on October 11th in Denver, Colorado. New this year, the competition added categories including rice lager, hop water, and a one-time craft malt category, along with two new specialty beer subcategories and three new standalone gluten-free style categories.

Temperatures could fall into the low to upper 30s overnight, threatening sensitive plants across northwest Oregon and southwest Washington.

The Oregon Government Ethics Commission has launched an investigation into two potential ethics violations by state Rep. Lamar Wise (D-Southeast Portland). The commission has begun a formal investigation into whether Wise failed to disclose income he received from the nonprofit group Seeding Justice when listing his potential conflicts of interest. Commissioners heard an overview of a preliminary staff report on the allegations at the commission’s monthly meeting on Oct. 9 and voted 8–0 to launc

17 suspects were arrested as part of a "retail theft blitz" in Hillsboro earlier this month, authorities announced.