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PORTLAND, Ore. — A 49-year-old man is facing several charges, including DUI, hit-and-run, forgery and meth possession, after a high-speed chase along Interstate 84 ended with a crash in Portland’s Lloyd District on Thursday night. The incident started at about 11 p.m. Thursday when TriMet Transit Police saw...

I’m old enough to remember when the national media loved Portland, or at least found us adorable, worthy of fawning pieces about food carts and a zeitgeisty-but-mid sketch comedy series. I’m also old enough to remember when the national media started hating us, because that was just a few years ago. But the hits keep...

In the Frank Capra classic It’s a Wonderful Life, the despairing do-gooder George Bailey is shown a vision of the miserable hellscape his hometown would become had he never been born. Multnomah County officials have their own George Bailey complex—overlooked, unthanked, subject to abusive tirades—but no guardian...

On Friday evening, October 31, at about 6:45 p.m., three youthful-looking masked men strolled into the Powell Liquor Store, on the corner of S.E. Powell Boulevard and 52nd Avenue – but they weren’t customers, they were thieves. Security video recorded the trio entering briskly, snatching booze off shelves,...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland man will spend the next 30 years in prison after he was convicted in a robbery case, and of shooting at two Portland Police officers who were trying to stop him. A grand jury found Christian Fitz-Henry, 31, guilty back in March of two...

Oregon Jewish groups are adding security to their Hanukkah celebrations tonight, but the largest events in the state all plan to go ahead. About 1,000 people usually gather in Portland’s Pioneer Square to light a large black Hanukkah menorah and eat the traditional latkes, or potato pancakes, to begin the eight-day...

Rob Reiner, the celebrated actor and director who’s 1986 film “Stand By Me” helped put Oregon on the map for Hollywood filming, has died. According to the Los Angeles Times, Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, 68, were found dead in their Brentwood, California home on Sunday, Dec. 14. Their deaths are...

At the beginning of each shift, Officer Rachel McDonald and social worker Sarah Scafani go over the list of people they need to find. The pair are one of five officer-clinician teams who make up the Portland Police Bureau’s highly specialized Behavioral Health Unit. They share a patrol car, spending several hours...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland Mayor Keith Wilson recently announced he had reached one of his housing goals to create 1,500 overnight shelter beds. He told KOIN 6 News last week that it’s just the beginning to reach another of his goals, which is ending unsheltered homelessness. This week, the Portland City...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A reported fire aboard a Portland Spirit boat prompted a large firefighter presence and passenger evacuations at the South Waterfront Park on Saturday night. Though the initial report was about a fire on the vessel, there turned out to be no fire or medical emergency aboard. Portland Fire and...