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Located on the Cowlitz Reservation in Ridgefield, Ilani’s newest restaurant, Sovereign, opened this week. Simultaneously a resort, hotel, and casino, Ilani features more than 100,000 square feet of gaming space; 20 different restaurants, bars and retail outlets; and a 2,500-seat meeting and entertainment venue. Owned a

Tourist traps have a certain look. Overpriced menus, mediocre food, and a line of people holding cameras instead of forks. Oregon has plenty of those, but the real magic happens where visitors rarely wander. These authentic Oregon restaurants have no flashy signs or Instagram walls. Just locals eating happily at...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Oscar Rosas Valle was more than happy to say yes when his brother recently asked him to join the family business. “I’ve always enjoyed cooking as much as he does, but I was working construction and the opportunity presented itself, and I was like yeah, I’ll give it a try and help you run the cart

CAMAS, Wash. (KPTV) - A parent was cited after police say their teenager rode an electric motorcycle the wrong way and caused a crash in Camas last week. The crash happened at about 3:39 p.m. in the 3500 block of Northeast Franklin Loop. Police said a 15-year-old boy on an electric motorcycle entered the roadway going

PORTLAND, Ore. — A property in Southeast Portland is at the center of a growing neighborhood dispute, as some neighbors allege that homeless people, aggressive dogs, noise and piles of garbage have made their lives miserable — and their calls for help are falling on deaf ears, they say.

Portland councilors on Tuesday waded into one of the city’s more Portland debates: whether to formally tell police that personal possession, small-scale cultivation and gifting of natural psychedelic mushrooms should be at the bottom of their to-do list. Backers pitched the move as a public health play that would free

A theft suspect was arrested on Sunday after a lengthy chase through Washington County, authorities said.

Jesse Calhoun has now been charged with five counts of second-degree murder for five victims Isabel Funk/The Oregonian via AP A man accused of killing multiple women and disposing of their bodies in the Portland area was arraigned on Wednesday on a fifth murder charge. Jesse Calhoun entered a not-guilty plea through hi

Subscribe to OPB’s First Look to receive Northwest news in your inbox six days a week. A federal tax credit launched in the 1980s is being used to supercharge the pace of housing construction in Portland and other cities across the country. An investigation by OPB and ProPublica found...

A man legally named Loony Toon was arrested for a crime that was anything but child's play. The 43-year-old man, named after the beloved animated series, fired his gun at three officers during a traffic stop in June 2025. Videos by Wide Open Country. Unlike the 94-year-old cartoon that inspired...