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PORTLAND, Ore. — Activists are calling on the city of Portland to take stronger action against climate change. A small group with the nonprofit Extinction Rebellion PDX gathered in front of Portland City Hall Monday on the anniversary of 2021's historic heat dome, a week of extreme temperatures that killed at least 96 Oregonians last June.

CANNON BEACH, Ore. — An 120-pound dead shark that was nearly 9 feet long washed ashore on the Oregon Coast on Sunday, according to the Seaside Aquarium. The female broadnose sevengill shark was 8.7 feet long. It washed up at the south end of Arcadia Beach State Recreation Site, a few miles south of Cannon Beach.

PORTLAND, Ore. — After the Supreme Court reversed its stance on Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that gave people the right to have an abortion, several major Oregon companies have made it clear their employees will still have access in states where abortion is banned. These companies have...

PORTLAND, Ore. — As Safe Rest Villages open across the city, a Portland nonprofit is taking a different approach to housing the homeless community. WeShine is looking to private landowners to build micro-villages for people experiencing homelessness. One village is already under construction in the Parkrose Community United Church of Christ parking lot near Northeast 122nd and Halsey.

SUTHERLIN, Ore. — Tesla is planning to build a massive Supercharger station in Oregon, an outpost apparently rivaled in scale only by one operating station in California and another under construction in the Golden State. The Oregon site is right off Interstate 5 in the Douglas County town of...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Maura White, Executive Director of Mother + Child Education Center in the Hollywood District, spent Monday morning surveying the damage to her non-profit's building following destructive demonstrations over the weekend. "We had really pretty windows," she said. "They smashed out the windows. Our brand new screen...

EUGENE, Ore. — Some of the best athletes in the world will compete at Hayward Field in Eugene next month for the World Athletics Championships. It'll be the first time that the global track-and-field event will take place in the United States. Before the games begin, a video created...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The death of a man at a homeless resource center in Tigard on Sunday afternoon is being investigated as a homicide, Tigard police reported. A suspect, 26-year-old Harrison Douglas-Myles McBride, was arrested and taken to the Washington County jail. He faces a charge of second-degree murder, as well as other charges for unrelated probation violations.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A suspect stole the gun of a private security guard during an altercation and shot him early Sunday morning in southeast Portland, the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) reported. The guard was shot in the chest but he was uninjured because he was wearing a ballistic vest,...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A driver and a pedestrian were killed in separate crashes in the Salem and Portland areas Sunday night, and two other pedestrians were critically injured in a crash in north Clark County earlier that afternoon, according to news releases from Oregon State Police and the Clark and Marion county sheriffs' offices.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Community members and leaders are remembering the nearly 100 Oregonians who died during 2021's historic heat dome weather event. City, county and faith leaders from around the Portland metropolitan area gathered at Leach Botanical Garden on a sweltering Sunday to memorialize the heat wave victims. In...

TROUTDALE, Ore. — All lanes of Interstate 84 have reopened through the Columbia River Gorge, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced just after 3:30 p.m. Monday. ODOT said drivers should expect congestion and advised them to watch for workers along the area west of Cascade Locks. I-84 was closed...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland man presumably drowned in the Columbia River while trying to rescue a woman who was struggling to swim, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office (MCSO). Around 5:15 p.m. Sunday, deputies with MCSO's River Patrol Unit responded to a report of a missing swimmer...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The man arrested on suspicion of assaulting two men in their 80s in downtown Portland on Saturday night has a lengthy criminal history including multiple prior felony convictions, court records show. Officers were on an unrelated call in the area of Southwest 5th Avenue and Hall...

ARLINGTON, Ore. — Driving down a windy canyon road in northern Oregon rangeland, Jordan Maley and April Aamodt are on the look out for Mormon crickets, giant insects that can ravage crops. “There’s one right there,” Aamodt says. They’re not hard to spot. The insects, which can...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A group of demonstrators brought traffic to a standstill briefly along busy Southeast 82 Avenue near Clackamas Town Center on Saturday. The crowd marched several blocks to remember Derrick Clark. The 24-year-old was shot and killed by police last weekend after a traffic stop and pursuit in Clackamas County.

PORTLAND, Ore. — With the first real taste of summer heat coming this weekend, preparations were underway at a Northeast Portland warehouse Saturday morning. Dozens of Multnomah County staff volunteered to assemble cooling kits. The kits consist of bags filled with items to help people keep cool, and they'll...

SALEM, Oregon — The death of a child is likely the hardest thing a parent may ever have to face — but imagine losing more than one, and all to cancer. That's the reality for a family from Salem, and right now they are determined to save their 7-year-old from the disease. They say they could desperately use help from the community.

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Vancouver police are currently investigating a suspicious apartment fire that led to the discovery of two dead men and displaced multiple people in the Harney Heights neighborhood overnight. In an initial statement Saturday morning, the Vancouver Fire Department (VFD) said it responded to reports of a...

PORTLAND, Ore. — This week, stylists at a Portland salon decided to spend their time helping people in the community look and feel good without having to worry about the cost. Styling hair is more than a hobby for Melody Wikander. She's been doing it since she was 10....