Thousands pack downtown Portland on Sunday for the city’s annual Pride Parade
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Thousands of people filled downtown Portland on Sunday as the city hosted its annual Pride Parade, one of the largest parades in Oregon and among the biggest Pride parades in the Pacific Northwest. Portland’s Pride events have long served as a celebration and a show...
A bystander intervened after a man allegedly tried to pull a 7-year-old girl away...
A bystander used pepper spray after a naked man allegedly tried to pull a 7-year-old girl away from her parents at a busy Portland park, while police officers reportedly took between 30 and 40 minutes to reach the scene.
Motorcyclist dies in crash on overpass in NE Portland
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A motorcyclist is dead after a crash on Northeast 33rd Avenue in Portland on Sunday evening, according to police. Shortly before 8 p.m., officers with the Portland Police Bureau were sent to the crash that happened on the Northeast 33rd overpass at Northeast Columbia Boulevard. Police...
CoreSite Proposes Massive Multi-Story Hillsboro Data Campus Opposite County Homes And Over Wetlands –...
The Real Story – A Column While the Hillsboro City Council continues to slow-play changes to zoning ordinances around data centers, more applications are coming in. A high-pressure zoning battle […] The post CoreSite Proposes Massive Multi-Story Hillsboro Data Campus Opposite County Homes And Over Wetlands – A Showdow
‘Shoot, shoot, shoot’: Man arrested after Portland daycare break-in
A man is facing several charges after breaking into a Southeast Portland home operating as a daycare, according to court documents.
You’ll Feel Like You’ve Stepped Into Happy Days At This Old-School Oregon Diner
Chrome booths, a working jukebox, and bottomless coffee set the mood the second you park. This Oregon diner does not just nod at the past, it lives there, about sixty years back. The griddle sizzles, the vinyl seats squeak, and the specials board hangs a little crooked. It is the...
Three arrested after northeast Portland shooting; 21-year-old victim expected to survive
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Police say three people were arrested in connection with a shooting Saturday night in northeast Portland. Officials say officers responded to reports of a shooting near Northeast 148th Avenue and Northeast Burnside Street. "Witnesses reported that a man exited an SUV and fired multiple rounds...
Police: 11 arrested, 7 guns seized during two-day enforcement mission across Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - A two-day enforcement mission aimed at curbing a recent rise in gun violence led to nearly a dozen arrests and the recovery of multiple firearms, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The mission was conducted July 17-18 and focused on areas seeing an increase in gun...
At Shirtzenpantz’s New Downtown Shop, Whimsy Rules
Two vast and trunkless legs of denim stand downtown. Near them, a more traditionally sized pair of jeans stands rigid and puzzlingly stiff, as if worn by a ghost, in the captain’s seat of a fishing boat that also serves as a cash register. It’s 2pm on a Monday inside the newest location of internet-famous thrift store
‘They ran over me twice’: Woman had just finished McDonald’s breakfast and was walking...
An Oregon woman who had just eaten breakfast at McDonald's was seriously injured after an SUV driver allegedly ran her over twice before fleeing the scene. The incident occurred shortly before 7 a.m. on July 13 off Town Center Drive in Hillsboro, which is just outside Portland. The victim, 22-year-old Estefania Lopez,
