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Oregon ethics officials will investigate whether six Portland city councilors violated public meetings law when they met for a private August retreat. The Oregon Government Ethics Commission voted 7-0 Friday to investigate Councilors Candace Avalos, Jamie Dunphy, Mitch Green, Sameer Kanal, Tiffany Koyama Lane and...

Oregon’s largest electrical utility is proposing to make residential customers pay at least part of the long-term cost of supplying large data centers, despite a new law requiring it to charge the centers’ developers, not other customers. This summer, Oregon became one of just a few states to pass a law requiring...

A Clackamas County grand jury found that Deputy Lindsay Bailey was justified in using deadly force during an incident with Daniel Dale Zimmerman in Boring, Oregon, last month. The grand jury reached this decision unanimously on December 10, 2025, after reviewing evidence and testimony from the November 9 event.

After seven years of serving up coffee, community, and memories, Presso Coffee’s Vancouver location is closing its doors for good. Owner Izzy Pavlenko shared on Instagram Reel that the decision comes from a desire to focus on family and downsize, a bittersweet choice that has left locals feeling nostalgic and...

Roughly four dozen people—including three Portland City Councilors—gathered at the Oregon Convention Center’s northeastern amphitheater on Dec. 13 for a rally in support of striking Starbucks workers. Saturday’s rally marked one month since the beginning of the strike, which now includes 10 Portland-area locations, a...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY Ore. (KPTV) - A 58-year-old woman who is diagnosed with dementia has been missing since Saturday and was last seen in Troutdale, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said on Sunday. According to the sheriff’s office, Kellie Fuller was last seen around 2 p.m. Saturday in the parking...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A 49-year-old man is facing several charges, including DUI, hit-and-run, forgery and meth possession, after a high-speed chase along Interstate 84 ended with a crash in Portland’s Lloyd District on Thursday night. The incident started at about 11 p.m. Thursday when TriMet Transit Police saw...

I’m old enough to remember when the national media loved Portland, or at least found us adorable, worthy of fawning pieces about food carts and a zeitgeisty-but-mid sketch comedy series. I’m also old enough to remember when the national media started hating us, because that was just a few years ago. But the hits keep...

In the Frank Capra classic It’s a Wonderful Life, the despairing do-gooder George Bailey is shown a vision of the miserable hellscape his hometown would become had he never been born. Multnomah County officials have their own George Bailey complex—overlooked, unthanked, subject to abusive tirades—but no guardian...

On Friday evening, October 31, at about 6:45 p.m., three youthful-looking masked men strolled into the Powell Liquor Store, on the corner of S.E. Powell Boulevard and 52nd Avenue – but they weren’t customers, they were thieves. Security video recorded the trio entering briskly, snatching booze off shelves,...