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The Clark County Council has adopted its annual budget for 2026, setting total expenditures at $883 million. The decision was made during a council meeting earlier this week. Clark County is located in Washington state.

Portland Fire & Rescue has issued a fire code violation at a Habitat for Humanity housing complex in Southeast Portland due to blocked fire access and other life-safety issues, which residents have been raising for nearly two years.

Portland City Councilors have spent the past 11 months allowing Mayor Keith Wilson to roll out his solutions to the city’s homeless crisis without criticism or impediment. But just days after Wilson’s self-imposed Dec. 1 deadline to end unsheltered homelessness, several councilors are calling for a change of course.

An oversight group for the Portland police's team to reduce gun violence in the Rose City held its annual community listening session on Thursday evening.

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The clock is ticking this week for everyone living at a homeless camp at the former location of Assembly Brewing in southeast Portland. “We knew that the place had shut down and we thought it’s got a cover, it’s got roof, it’s got cement flooring, it’s protection, it was starting to get cold,...

Gov. Tina Kotek stands with Portland leaders and Portland Police Chief Bob Day at a press conference in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. She highlighted similar experience when announcing her 2026 bid for reelection on Thursday. (Photo by Alex Baumhardt/Oregon Capital Chronicle) Gov. Tina Kotek formally...

On the evening of December 3, 2025, officers from the Portland Police Bureau’s Focused Intervention Team (FIT) conducted a traffic stop near Southeast 82nd Avenue and Southeast Foster Road. The stop was made after a vehicle changed lanes without signaling. During the stop, officers found that the driver, Abdikadir H....

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - A critical care hospital in northeast Portland will close down early next year, cutting hundreds of health care positions. Vibra Specialty Hospital at 10300 Northeast Hancock Street will close on Feb. 1, 2026, according to a WARN notice issued on Tuesday. The notice says the closure is due to...

Police on Tuesday arrested a man and accused him of assaulting a jogger in Vancouver on Oct. 26. Nathan Howard Allen, 21, of Vancouver, faces charges including fourth-degree assault and indecent exposure. The woman told police she was jogging in the 1100 block of Southeast 99th Avenue in Vancouver around...