The Pacific Northwest has been in a damp, soggy pattern in recent days, with most areas at above-normal rainfall for the month of May. AccuWeather meteorologists say that this trend will continue over the coming days, making for a dreary and wet Memorial Day weekend. This weekend's weather comes after...
The Toronto Raptors raised some eyebrows around the NBA Draft world when they met with a pair of versatile guards in Dyson Daniels and Bennedict Mathurin that many expect to be picked in the Top 10. Could Masai Ujiri be eyeing a significant trade-up into the lottery?. While the Kings...
After adding over 699,000 new cases throughout the last week, the U.S. now has more than 82.6 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. There have been more than 990,000 COVID-19-related deaths — the highest death toll of any country. New cases continue to rise at a steady rate. In the past week, there were an average […]
The Inter Miami CF (4-3-6) will be defending the net from the Portland Timbers attackers (3-6-5) in the MLS Inter-Conference at DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday at 7:00 PM ET. Miami collided with the New York Red Bulls in their recent campaign and ended up with a...
The writer’s scheme called for a perfect crime. Then it crumbled. For all her inventions on the page, Nancy Crampton Brophy’s plot to murder her husband unravelled almost immediately, after police quickly obtained surveillance camera footage showing the romance novelist at the scene of the fatal shooting on June 2, 2018.
REDMOND — A former Oregon death row inmate who got a second chance at freedom could now face nearly 20 years in prison following a conviction for stabbing three people outside a Redmond bar. Gregory Paul Wilson, 55, was found guilty on Wednesday of three counts of second-degree assault...
Memorial Day weekend is off to a rainy start in the Portland area, with the National Weather Service issuing a rare forecast that there is 100% chance of rain. Between a quarter-inch and half-inch of precipitation is expected by days end, weather service forecasters say. The temperature should hover in...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Memorial Day Weekend is here. By now, you know we have to exercise some patience before we fire up the grill. Good news is you can make this weekend your utility weekend and get some home projects done while you're waiting out the rain. Potential rainfall totals for Saturday in the Willamette Valley: 0.50" to 0.90". The Sat through Monday morning totals may put Portland over an inch. PDX has already exceeded the climate normal rainfall for the month of May (2.51"). Current rain total is 3.15", and counting! That's already five times the amount of rain was saw in May of last year. An abnormally cold low drops in bring a round of snowfall across the Oregon Cascades today and tomorrow. There's enough snow expected that the National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for the Cascades. Read impacts details below. It'll be a stormy one, sailor, if you're going coastal this weekend. Heavy rain and gusts up to 40mph are possible. Just another day in paradise. Read more about the Gale Warning here. We begin to dry out on Sunday but showers will linger. Monday will be the best day to enjoy outdoors with temps back in the mid 60s and plenty of dry time.
The 2022 Prefontaine Classic began Friday night with the men's and women's 10,000 meters race, a qualifying event for July's World Athletics Championships.
Both races were close but were won in entirely different ways.
Karissa Schweizer won the women's 10,000 meters with a time of 30:49.56. Alicia Monson and Natosha Rogers came...
Houston returns home for the second home game of the regular season and the first in almost a month. The Dash enter Sunday’s match with a 2-1-1 record and are in fourth place in the league standings. Sunday’s match is the first meeting between the two teams in 2022. Last season the two teams met twice during the 2021 regular season, both of which were wins for Houston. The final match up came on Oct. 10, 2021 at PNC Stadium and was a 4-1 victory which featured a brace from forward Rachel Daly.
BEAVERTON, Ore. (KATU) — In this week’s Everyday Hero, we meet a busy Oregon mom whose business, like so many, took a hit during the pandemic. When Rathana Soenneker couldn’t serve her customers, she turned that into an opportunity to support those in her community through tough times.
The views expressed in these submissions are from anonymous, unverified sources and do not necessarily represent those of the Portland Mercury. And now we enter the second phase of a national trauma, the part where the money-grubbers and the narcissists jump into the conversation recognizing the opportunity for attention and cash.