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PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Portlanders could see fewer homeless response services under Mayor Keith Wilson’s proposed budget, which would cut shelter services by 29% and outreach programs by 32%. Under the proposal, shelter services would be reduced to about $40 million, and city outreach would be reduced to...

Amid the strip malls and used car lots along SE 82nd, one big building, now home to Super King Buffet, looks out of place: glass walls stretching tens of feet tall, ceilings sharply sloping in different directions. Turns out these glass add-ons, designed by none other than Pioneer Square architect Willard K. Martin, were once home to a massive Wurlitzer pipe organ, which...

Last September, anxiety was spreading in one of Portland’s most prominent scientific research operations, with rumors of layoffs on the horizon. Last week, it became official: The Knight Cancer Institute is slashing dozens of jobs. Fifty-nine people were “impacted by the reductions in force,” according to Oregon Health &...

You do not just visit Powell’s City of Books. You sink into it, wandering color-coded rooms until time stops and your stack of finds gets delightfully out of hand. From rare first editions to staff-picked sleepers, every aisle feels like a plot twist waiting for you. Clear your schedule, because this iconic Portland stop rewards every extra minute you give it.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Portland Mayor Keith Wilson's proposed budget, released Monday, includes more than $20 Million in cuts to the city's police and fire bureaus. The potential cuts are meant to close a roughly $170 million budget gap in city government. "I've done my utmost to set up...

A slow afternoon is enough to put Michelle Wachsmuth on edge. Five days a week, from open to close, you can find her dashing throughout the many dining rooms of Old Town Portland’s historic Wachsmuth Building — tending bar or shucking shellfish at Dan & Louis Oyster Bar, the restaurant her husband’s great-grandfather first opened 119 years ago.

Imagine the surprise of drivers as a plane taxis down SR 14. Thankfully, the pilot kept it cool under pressure—here’s how it all unfolded.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - A 42-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a three-alarm fire that destroyed a youth addiction recovery center earlier this month, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The fire happened on Saturday, April 11, at 4D Adolescent and Family Recovery Campus, located at Northeast 100th...

Washington County prosecutors have accused a 23-year-old Lake Oswego woman of stealing from five elderly clients in the Portland area while working as their caregiver. Willow McCullough was indicted by a grand jury on April 8 of aggravated identity theft, fraudulent use of a credit card and theft. The indictment alleges she stole more than $10,000 from one of the victims, who...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KPTV) - A pedestrian has been hospitalized after being hit by a suspected speeding driver in Vancouver early Monday morning. At about 3:30 a.m., officers responded to a crash in the area of West Mill Plain Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue. Police said a driver was going westbound on Mill Plain when they hit a person who had stepped into the crosswalk.