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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Fireworks sparked more fires in Portland on the Fourth of July this year than in 2025, despite a citywide ban that went into effect four years ago, officials said on Thursday. Portland Fire & Rescue said that while numbers were typical before Independence Day, they...

Clark County’s homelessness report, released earlier this week, found that the number one driver of homelessness is the rising cost of housing. However, the report’s second leading cause of homelessness, domestic violence, surprised KIRO host Ursula Reutin and fill-in host Angela Poe Russell. “Domestic violence and hom

Willamette River spring Chinook catches remain good enough to still invest time from the head of the channel just downstream of St. Johns to the mouth at Kelley Point Park. Early mornings remain a must, but the fishery is simplistic, enabling anyone with a boat and a 360 flasher to “be in the game.”

Consider the steelhead. Genetically identical to a rainbow trout, it grows bigger and stronger by migrating back and forth from the Pacific Ocean. Close readers of this magazine will recognize such a lifestyle as one we recommend to city dwellers in the summer months. (Scientists call it being anadromous.) So...

BEAVERTON, Ore. (KPTV) - Three people have been arrested after Beaverton Police say two suspects stole pizza and beer before crashing into a credit union on Friday night. At around 8:15 p.m., officers responded to a reported theft at Von Ebert Brewing on NW Cedar Falls Drive, where two suspects had allegedly stolen bee

Officials estimated upgrading the pre-existing Kerby Garage could cost around $43 million.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A bicyclist was critically injured after a crash with a Toyota Avalon in Portland, and police said the driver left the scene before officers arrived. The Portland Police Bureau said it responded around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 11 after a collision between the driver of a Toyota Avalon and a r

HILLSBORO, Ore. (KATU) — A local Hillsboro farm is asking for the public’s help identifying the people accused of damaging property and stealing money from its self-serve farm Wednesday night. Katie Christensen, owner of Muddy Feet Farm on Southwest Wolsborn Avenue, said surveillance video captured two people walking..

Portland officials just got the go-ahead to turn up the heat on the private landlord behind the city’s ICE processing center on South Macadam, after the Portland Hearings Office upheld a key land use ruling this week. The decision affirms that the facility violated a 2011 condition that bars holding people overnight or

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A group of strangers became heroes, protecting one another against a man who police said was harassing them and other women at a Southwest Portland park. “He was just relentlessly not stopping,” said victim Zoee Shearer. “He specifically targeted people that were women by themselves, no...