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The audit comes the year after leaders approved the Office of Diversity and Equity’s new Workforce Equity Strategic Plan.

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Two men and one juvenile were taken into custody last Thursday after four simultaneous search warrants were executed at residences in Washington County. Alleged leaders of the Tepa gang, Maximiliano Alvarez, 35, and 29-year-old Roberto Cisneros-Vite, both of Beaverton, were apprehended...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The suspect in a deadly stabbing in Portland's Pleasant Valley neighborhood has been arrested and is facing serious charges. S Mate Joseph of Battleground, as police identified him, is 28 years old and was arrested and booked into the Clark County Jail. He is facing charges of first-degree...

CLACKAMAS COUNTY Ore. (KPTV) - Investigators are seeking more victims after a man was arrested in connection with tool thefts through deception from stores in Portland and Clackamas, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday. On July 10, an employee at a Clackamas interior supply store reported...

“Many people in the United States still think of noise as just a nuisance, not a real health risk."

Deputies arrested a man accused of trying to sell several tools on Facebook Marketplace after he allegedly stole them from local businesses. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect called a local business and charged more than $6,300 in tools to the account of a drywall business, pretending to work for...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - More than $2.5 million was collected from a real estate developer for fraudulently obtained COVID-19 relief program funds and money laundering, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon. Michael James DeFrees, 63, of Vancouver, was sentenced to 21 months in prison...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A shooting in Vancouver on Wednesday night led to the deaths of two people, including the suspect, according to Vancouver police. Authorities say that two other people were injured in the incident and taken to the hospital. Around 6:15 p.m., officers responded to the 13600 block of NE 22nd...

The homicide investigation is ongoing, police said.

It seems like just a few years ago (it was 1995!) that the Portland rock band Everclear rose to success with its “Sparkle and Fade” album. The single “Santa Monica” became a big hit, with its recognizable opening bars and Art Alexakis’ first lines: “I am still living with your ghost / Lonely and dreaming of the West...