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PORTLAND, OR – City bureaus will be shorthanded as 800 union members walked off the job Monday morning. City of Portland Professional Workers Union held simlutaneous rallies outside both City Hall and the Portland Building after a rally at the Columbia Wastewater Treatment Plant in North Portland. “We see...
A quarterly event where volunteers repair broken items and community members can discover gently used clothes returns later this month at a new location. The Fall 2026 Repair Café and […]
It’s just about the most wonderful time of the year: when temperatures cool, the season of giving is upon us and everyone gathers around the tree in downtown Hillsboro. Hillsboro […]
Approximately 9,000 people attended the annual Portland Book Festival in downtown Portland on Saturday, featuring international authors and providing an economic boost to local businesses.
Portland, Ore. – Multnomah County prosecutors will take an alleged bias crime to the grand jury, while another racially-motivated case heads to sentencing this week. Trevor Cash was recently convicted for threatening a group of roofers in May of 2025, “And they were threatened – in part, at least – because of their perceived immigration status or their race,” says says District Attorney Nathan Vasquez. “This was a jury trial in which the defendant was found guilty of Unlawful Use of a Weapon, Bias Crime I, Menacing and Bias Crime in the second degree.” Cash will be sentenced Friday and Vasquez says his office is asking for prison time. “When someone’s threatening to call ICE, or threatening physical violence on someone because of their race or perceived immigration status, we are going to take swift action.”
A total of 6,055 formerly homeless people are currently in safe and stable housing in Multnomah County with the support of the voter-approved Metro Supportive Housing Services (SHS) Measure, a new annual report from Multnomah County shows. Marking the halfway point of the historic 10-year measure, the report shows Multnomah...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Starting Monday, Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) crews are hitting the streets to clear the piles of wet leaves across the city. Portland's annual leaf day program begins this morning in designated neighborhoods. The service is free, and you don't need to sign up. People...
Volunteers from the neighborhood association for Sellwood and Westmoreland – SMILE – can now legally paint yellow “no parking” curbs themselves, thanks to a novel agreement the neighborhood association has […]
The developer of the planned North Anchor development on B Avenue and First Street in downtown Lake Oswego is asking the local community to consider investing in the project so […]
More than 11,000 Portland General Electric customers lost power on Saturday night, according to the PGE outage map.
It’s the time of year when things can get pretty stressful; the holidays and the end of the year are creeping up, and, if you live in the Pacific Northwest, the rain and cold have returned until spring. But it’s also a time when people join forces and ramp up giving efforts to make huge differences in their communities.
The Newberg Community Band’s fall concert, unofficially called “Godzilla Eats Las Vegas” after one of the tunes it will perform, is on tap this weekend. Set for 2:30 p.m. Sunday, […]
Sur La Table, the high-end kitchenware chain, recently reopened its doors in Bridgeport Village at a different location in the shopping complex. The new store is now open at 7363 […]
A high wind warning is in effect up the Oregon and Washington coasts through Saturday, with Pacific County reporting several downed trees throughout the area, saying responders are currently working to clear the roads. NWS Portland warned of wind gusts from the south could be as high as 50-60 mph...
The Hillsboro area is a great place to catch all the colors of Fall. As deciduous trees and brush shed their leaves in their annual display, we get to enjoy […] The post Fall Colors On Display At Hillsboro Parks – Catch Them While You Can appeared first on The Hillsboro Herald .
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A report released Tuesday on how Multnomah County spent its portion of the Metro homeless services tax in fiscal year 2026 showed that, once again, the county sheltered and housed thousands of people even as thousands more lost their housing. Annual reports show that in every year since at least...
Holiday deliveries bring package theft concerns to Portland, Salem and communities across Oregon.
An Oregon continuing care retirement community is embarking on an expansion project centered on sustainable, climate-resilient senior living. RoseVilla Senior Living is embarking on an expansion project that will add two new neighborhoods — Mahonia EcoHomes and RainWood Lofts — and a facility operations center that will serve as a Resilient Operations and Sustainable Energy, or ROSE, Hub, to its 25-acre Portland campus.
Portland, OR. — The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners voted 3–2 on Nov. 5 to approve a new ambulance service plan that sets a 15-minute response benchmark for life-threatening emergencies in Fairview, Troutdale and Wood Village, compared with eight minutes in Portland and Gresham. The benchmarks follow state...