PPS plans would close six schools serving more low-income families
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Portland Public Schools is weighing two closure plans, but both would shut the same six Title I schools. Three of the schools are in the Jefferson/Roosevelt region, while the other three are in the Cleveland/Franklin region. None of the proposed Title I closures are in Grant/McDaniel or Wells/Li
Salt & Straw sues Ruby Jewel over taco deal
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Salt & Straw has sued fellow Portland ice cream maker Ruby Jewel, alleging the company plans to stop making its Tacolate ice cream tacos in breach of a three-year manufacturing deal. The complaint, filed Oct. 5 in Multnomah County Circuit Court seeks more than $1 million...
Portland’s Director of Public Utilities Is on Paid Administrative Leave
Dr. Ting Lu, the city’s first-ever director of public utilities, is on paid administrative leave. That’s according to an email sent to city leaders this week by Millicent Williams, interim deputy city administrator of public works and director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation. A city spokesperson confirmed...
OHSU researchers study blood test to detect cancer
PORTLAND, Ore. — Researchers at OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute are celebrating progress on a multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL’s Galleri test, as it’s called, can detect up to 50 cancers, leading to a diagnosis that doctors otherwise weren’t screening for. Currently, only 14 percent...
Portland Developer Jeff Swickard Gives Kotek $100,000
Downtown Portland’s latest real estate developer, Jeff Swickard, recently gave $100,000 to Gov. Tina Kotek’s reelection campaign. Last week’s contribution, disclosed in campaign finance records this morning, is the largest Swickard has made in Oregon as well as one of the largest this year for Kotek, who’s raised $13.5
Man stabbed in Portland bike theft, suspect arrested
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Police arrested a man on Sunday they accuse of robbing and stabbing another man leaving Goodwill in Southeast Portland, according to the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. Shawn Vanoni was walking his bike on the sidewalk on Southeast Powell Boulevard near 92nd Avenue when...
Volunteers needed for East Gresham Park, Kane Road Park
A group of Gresham neighbors is working hard to care for and cultivate a pair of parks, one undeveloped and one neglected. The Powell Valley Neighborhood Association has taken the […]
Clark County Deputies: Large pot grow found at homeless camp in Hazel Dell
VANCOUVER, Wash. (KATU) — Clark County sheriff's deputies say they made quite a discovery while patrolling homeless camps in the area of Highway 99 and 99th street. Deputies say last week they found a large transient camp with nearly 100 mature marijuana plants while conducting patrols. Two people were...
Identity Clark County has elected Andy Macklin to its Board of Directors and honored...
Mr. Macklin, based in Vancouver, Wash, is an Executive Director for a Power and Energy business unit of WSP, a global engineering and professional services firm based in Montreal. He leads national growth, strategy and project delivery serving the energy sector, working with utilities, developers, agencies and large en
Suspect in Scappoose armed robbery attempt caught in California
SCAPPOOSE, Ore. — A suspect accused of trying to rob a Scappoose business at gunpoint back in July was caught in Siskiyou County, California, police investigators say. Manuel Magana-Moon, 25, is being held at the Columbia County Jail on $100,000 bail. The incident happened at about 10:30 p.m. on...
