Vancouver WA

Bruce Springsteen is out to save America with rock and roll. On Friday night, in a Moda Center packed with screaming, singing fans, it felt like he might just do it. At 7:30 p.m., long lines still snaked around the Rose Quarter. So it was about 10 minutes after the planned start time that Springsteen and the E Street...

A cross-state drug pipeline packed into a Dodge Ram just earned a Portland man a decade in federal prison. Luis Garcia Zurita, 38, was sentenced Thursday to 120 months behind bars after investigators say they found thousands of counterfeit fentanyl pills and more than two kilograms of cocaine hidden in a vehicle he...

CLARK COUNTY Wash. (KPTV) - The man accused of killing a Portland mother appeared in a Clark County courtroom for the first time on Thursday, two years after the alleged crime. Dariel Nunez Montero, 32, wore an orange jumpsuit while joining the hearing remotely from jail. Deputies extradited him from...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An Oregon man who robbed a Denny’s in Clackamas County of its video poker money is heading to prison. Douglas Wayne Kelsey, 33, was sentenced Thursday to 14 years after he pleaded guilty to two counts of first degree robbery. According to court documents...

Two weeks after union members called for top bosses to resign at Sunstone Way, workers at the nonprofit homeless camp operator got an email saying Sunstone will permanently close on July 1. The March 12 memo to workers blamed the closure on reduced funding and increased expenses, but gross mismanagement...

GRESHAM, Ore. (KATU) — The Gresham-Barlow School District is preparing for another round of budget cuts. On Thursday, the school board approved a resolution that gave the district superintendent the authority to lay off staff. The district said cuts to staff are necessary to close a projected $10.2 million...

Some teachers with Vancouver Public Schools held a protest Thursday morning against upcoming layoffs.

WILLAPA RIVER — The juvenile gray whale that strayed far from his or her family and wandered miles up the Willapa River in north Pacific County is still there as of late afternoon, April 2. Earlier Thursday it was believed the whale — which some are calling Willapa Willy...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — People who visited the Safeway at 2800 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd. within the last week may have been exposed to the measles, the Oregon Health Authority said Thursday. Officials released the specific times and dates of possible exposure. Between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday, March...

Kaiser Permanente officially put shovels in the ground Thursday for a new seven-story replacement hospital at its Sunnyside Medical Center campus in Happy Valley, a project the health system says will open in 2029 and take the place of the aging patient tower now on site. Kaiser is pitching the build as both a...