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Here’s a tasty New Year’s resolution for you: Eat more chicken. Or rather, as Chick-fil-A would less eloquently put it, “eat mor chikin.” The Georgia-based fast food chain has been working to grow its Oregon footprint since earlier this year, when the company announced plans to open six new restaurants across the...

Outside of the St. Paul Lutheran Church in downtown Vancouver on the longest night of the year, David Slocum stood under a pop-up tent and read the names of 42 people who had experienced extended periods of homelessness in the county and who died in 2025. The names of two longtime homeless advocates who died this...

Jessica L. Host-Norwest, 33, was found dead in her Southeast Portland apartment on Saturday morning, and her husband, Jason A. Norwest, 41, has been charged with second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A suspect in an alleged kidnapping attempt in Clark County got more than he bargained for when an 11-year-old girl kicked him in the groin and escaped. According to court documents, Jerson Hartman, 31, of Twin Falls, Idaho, was wearing a ski mask when he allegedly tried to grab the girl around 5:30...

The city of Portland spent nearly $831 million in the last fiscal year compensating its municipal workforce across more than two dozen bureaus, departments and elected offices. That’s nearly a 5.4% increase from the $788 million spent the year prior, according to an analysis of city data by The Oregonian/OregonLive....

Many workers across the country will get a raise on Jan. 1 as minimum wages rise in 19 states, but Oregonians will have to wait a few months. Why it matters: Oregon is the most recent state to tie raises in its minimum wage to inflation. Zoom in: As of...

Deputies closed a section of Southwest Tualatin Valley Highway late Monday night for a deadly crash involving a car and a pedestrian. The crash happened near Southeast 198th Avenue about four miles east of Hillsboro. No other details were immediately available.

State lawmakers from Oregon and Washington left a Monday meeting without the long-awaited cost update for the Interstate Bridge Replacement Project, raising fresh concerns as the hypothetical final

In a recent turn of events, Vancouver, Washington-based tax preparer Keith Altamirano has been handed a sentence of 18 months in federal prison. The sentencing comes on the back of his guilty plea to sixteen counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false federal tax returns, the U.S. Attorney's Office...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — KATU has declared a Storm Tracker 2 Weather Alert for the possibility of high winds in the Willamette Valley and Portland metro area on Wednesday morning. While the Portland metro area will not have a white Christmas, the forecast this week looks to be somewhat...