Clackamas County, OR

Oregon City police eventually separated the two groups after skirmishes broke out at Clackamette Park on Friday, June 18. An Oregon City park transformed into a battlefield as dueling groups of protesters engaged in violent skirmishes miles from their usual sparring grounds in downtown Portland Friday, June 18. Local police...

In light of inequitable access, directors make tough decision to return to pre-COVID fines starting July 1. Clackamas County library directors recently made a unanimous decision to end the temporary suspension of overdue fines and to return to the prepandemic status quo starting July 1. Library directors throughout the county...

Not all agencies in the state are affected by supply failures of the chemical critical for treating tap water.On June 14, Clackamas County wastewater and drinking water providers received a notice that their sodium hypochlorite supplier might not be able to honor promised deliveries of the chlorine that's critical for treating tap water. John Collins, general manager of the South Fork Water Board, said he was grateful that the chlorine shortage will not affect his customers in Oregon City and West Linn. However, the city of Lake Oswego sent out a press release June 17 encouraging city of Lake...

(Nathan Howard/Getty Images) (PORTLAND, Ore.) A new burn ban went into effect across the Portland metro area Friday in anticipation of hot and dry conditions in the coming days, KATU reports.

Jonathan Wiebe will get more than eight years behind bars for rape, assault, unlawful weapon use.On June 11, former Happy Valley resident and Kaiser Permanente physician Dr. Jonathan Patrick Wiebe was convicted on several domestic violence charges, including first-degree rape, and is facing at least eight years in jail during his sentencing hearing on June 28. Wiebe was arrested without bail following his trial this month, after which Clackamas County Circuit Judge Michael C. Wetzel found Wiebe guilty of rape, sexual abuse, unlawful use of a weapon (knife and/or box cutter) and assault "committed in the immediate presence of and/or...