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A judge sentenced a 58-year-old Springfield man to 30 years in prison on Aug. 21 for killing a Clark County, Washington, woman in a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by the victim's husband. Darrell E. Riley pleaded guilty at the Clark County Superior Court in Washington on May 15 to a single count of first-degree murd

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KATU) — Vancouver city councilors are considering a slight increase in the local sales tax rate to help pay for more police officers. It's the city's latest effort to increase staffing at the police department, which officials say is understaffed for the growing area. Council members on...

Across the country, ghosts of Rite Aids past fill strip malls and shopping plazas. After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year, the Philadelphia-based pharmacy and retail chain spent the better part of 2025 wiping its entire national footprint via a mounting series of closures. By October, the company went from mo

The Blumenauer Bridge, which crosses Interstate 84 in Portland’s Central Eastside, was closed during the morning commute Monday after a car drove onto the bridge, which is designed for bikes and pedestrians only. The car damaged the bridge’s railings and fencing, the Portland Bureau of Transportation said. PBOT...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Crook County Sheriff's Office has recovered nearly $20,000 worth of stolen goods following an operation that extended to Portland. On July 20th a Brasada Ranch employee reported a large number of golf clubs, bags and other equipment missing While investigating, Sheriff's officers saw a Facebook

Police on Monday released the name of the man who was stabbed to death in Portland’s Hazelwood neighborhood early Saturday morning. Washington Toe, 38, of Portland, died in a hospital after police had found him in a parking lot shortly after 2 a.m. on Saturday in the 10200 block of Southeast Pine Street.

Investigators released the identities of five victims discovered on a rural property in Forest Grove, Oregon, following a complex homicide investigation.

A Southeast Portland restaurant is cleaning up damage to its street seating after they said a truck hit it over the weekend.

American Dream Pizza closed in 2024, was revived in 2025 as Original Dream Pizza, and, in 2026, it’s closing again. “We took a big risk, reopening our favorite pizzeria after it had been closed a year,” the company wrote on social media. “We really tried to bring ‘The Dream’ back to life. Unfortunately, all of our effo

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A man who was severely burned in an “intentional act” last week in Old Town and taken to the hospital has died, the Portland Police Bureau said on Monday. Authorities are calling 54-year-old Anthony “Tony” Knights’ death a homicide. Officers...