After Centennial Mills, KATU examines Prosper Portland’s property portfolio
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — After KATU revealed the city of Portland lost millions of dollars connected to the long-troubled Centennial Mills property — now reduced to rubble — we are continuing to track where public money goes at other Prosper Portland properties. The question is not just...
Property Watch: A One-of-a-Kind Three-Home Compound in Cully
Hang a left off of NE 60th Avenue, and this leafed-out section of NE Simpson Street is slow and quiet—actually, it's a city-designated Neighborhood Greenway—with a mix of old and new houses. That’s part of why this unique three-home compound fits right in. It helps that it occupies a deep lot that's twice as big (12,28
Portland police investigate stabbing death after victim found in parking lot
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A person died at a hospital after being stabbed on Saturday in the 10200 block of Southeast Pine Street in Portland. Police have a suspect in custody. Portland Police Bureau officers responded around 2:19 a.m. on Aug. 22 to reports of a stabbing and found...
Portland area leaders are dismantling a third of the homeless shelter system they just...
Over the past five years, Portland and Multnomah County leaders have poured millions of dollars into expanding the area’s homeless shelter system, creating more than 2,300 new beds in an effort to quickly move people off the streets. County leaders enlisted nonprofits to run round-the-clock shelters they said would...
Sprinkles possible Saturday across the Portland metro area
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A weak system will shift through the Portland region Saturday, bringing more clouds and the risk of a morning sprinkle. Afternoon temperatures will be comfortable in the mid-to-upper 70s across the metro area under continued warm southerly flow aloft. Some instability over the Cascades may bring
TriMet to enact sweeping service cuts amid a massive budget shortfall
Starting Sunday, TriMet will enact a historic wave of cuts and consolidation to its services, potentially impacting thousands of riders across its system. It’s part of an effort to reduce the agency’s estimated $300 million budget shortfall, brought about by stagnating ridership and soaring operational costs. Thirty-fo
SE Portland homeowner works to clear away tires, trash dumped on his property
It’s been a busy summer for one Southeast Portland homeowner who has been cleaning up trash and tires that were dumped on his property.
Missing since 1990 from Portland, Oregon: Kacey Ann Perry was only 10 when she...
Kacey Ann Perry has been missing from Portland, Oregon (Multomah County), since September 14, 1990, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Her photo above is an age-progressed likeness of how she might have looked at 26, though she would now be 46.
‘I can’t breathe’: New video shows woman’s final moments in Clackamas County Jail
OREGON CITY, Ore. (KPTV) - Gerlinde Spring Lynch repeatedly told deputies she could not breathe shortly before she died in the Clackamas County Jail, according to video newly obtained by the FOX 12 Investigative Unit. Lynch, 47, was strapped into a restraint chair and surrounded by more than a dozen...
County’s Largest Employee Union Backs Julia Brim-Edwards
The American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees Local 88, Multnomah County’s largest employee union, today became the latest and perhaps most significant union to issue an endorsement for Julia Brim-Edwards in the county chair race. Local 88 represents about 4,000 county employees. Its members work in su

















