Vancouver WA

Vancouver police say a late-night spin through an east-side curve ended in handcuffs, a wrecked car and a haul of suspected fentanyl and a handgun. Officers arrested a driver early Wednesday after a crash that followed what they describe as a dangerously sloppy turn and a brief pursuit through a neighborhood street...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KATU) — Police are investigating social media threats made against staff members at Fort Vancouver High School. School officials sent a letter to parents and students on Tuesday. In that letter, officials said the threats originated on Instagram and depicted altered images of some high school staff...

A new Wilco Farm Store will open in Aloha at the end of the month. The farmer-owned cooperative announced its newest location will be ready for business March 31 at 17675 S.W. Farmington Road, formerly a Basics Market. Wilco’s Aloha store marks the company’s 27th retail location and its second...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Authorities have identified the person found dead inside a tiny home in North Portland as 33-year-old Gary Scott Young. The fire happened Monday evening at the North Portland Road Safe Rest Village at 10505 N. Portland Road. Just before 6 p.m., emergency dispatchers began receiving...

In a rare public showdown inside Multnomah County’s justice system, District Attorney Nathan Vasquez has told his prosecutors not to steer serious felony cases into Judge Adrian L. Brown’s courtroom, effectively benching an elected trial judge from the county’s most high-stakes prosecutions. The move grew out of...

Copper thieves have literally pulled the plug on warmth at the Mazamas Mountaineering Center, with the long-running Portland nonprofit saying crooks stripped copper out of its heating and cooling system and left the historic hub for climbers and hikers freezing and facing nearly $40,000 in damage. Staff realized...

There are some restaurants that just feel like home the moment you walk through the door, and Sayler’s Old Country Kitchen in Portland is exactly that kind of place. I had heard people talk about this steakhouse for years, the kind of word-of-mouth buzz that spreads quietly but stubbornly across the whole state.

In addition to a host of other legal challenges, Dr. Robert Pamplin Jr. now faces a demand from the Oregon Department of State Lands to pay $13.9 million for his neglect of one of Oregon’s iconic rivers. The state notified Pamplin of that hefty tab in an 18-page letter on Feb. 19. It described a […] The post The...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A dangerous drug combination is resurfacing on Portland’s streets, and treatment providers say it’s becoming more common. “It’s a goofball,” that’s the term Solara Salazar, the Executive Director of the Cielo Treatment Center, says is being used again. She says “goofball” is a mix of...

A Eugene-based discount retailer quietly closed one of its Portland-area stores this week. Business opening or closing in your neighborhood? Email the reporter at [email protected]. Bi-Mart — a regional chain with 79 locations across Oregon, Washington and western Idaho — announced Wednesday it would close its...