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Portland had itself quite a Saturday night. What started as an illegal street takeover involving roughly 100 people at a Northeast Portland intersection spiraled into a multisite cat-and-mouse chase, a foot pursuit, and an aerial ... Read more

A case of whooping cough has Portland’s Grant High School on alert. In a letter Monday to the school community, health officials from Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties warned that someone with the bacterial infection also known as pertussis had spent time at the Northeast Portland school. The letter...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - The Portland Police Bureau’s Air Support Unit (ASU) assisted officers in making two separate arrests late Monday night. The first arrest happened after 10 p.m. when police said a man stole a car in the area of Southwest 4th Avenue and Southwest Washington Street. The ASU followed the car on Inte

Lewisville Regional Park in Battle Ground is closed indefinitely after an overnight fire early Tuesday tore through the park’s Grand Shelter, pulling firefighters into the area in the middle of the night and shutting down one of Clark County’s most popular river spots. Crews knocked down the flames...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KPTV) - A shelter-in-place alert has been lifted for people in a Vancouver neighborhood following the report of a gas leak. Just before 11 a.m., the Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency (CRESA) said there had been a hazardous material release due to a gas leak near 2610 Kauffman Avenue.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A local doctor is facing five years in prison after pleading guilty to a deadly hit and run. Kenneth Kolarsky was driving in Woodburn in late December 2024 when he hit Nicolas Hernandez-Mendoza, 44, at a crosswalk on Pacific Highway north of Williams Avenue. Hernandez-Mendoza...

Just a couple weeks ago, we wrote that ICE had detained Khao Niew Lao food cart owner “Nong” Thavatsay Phimmoungkhoun, known by many as a fixture of the PSU community. And this week, another ICE detention has hit another Portland family and the local food community hard. Torta...

Every spring, something extraordinary happens in Southeast Portland. Quiet woodland paths suddenly burst into color. Massive blooms spill over shaded trails in brilliant shades of pink, purple, crimson, orange, and white. Waterfalls tumble beneath flowering branches while ducks glide across a peaceful lake surrounded b

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A war of words has erupted between the Oregonian's sports columnist and a city councilor over whether Portland should pony up millions in public money to rehab the Moda Center. Why it matters: Depending on who you believe, the City Council is either about to sign a blank check of...