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Gresham, OR

Portland, OR

Multnomah County, OR

The Oregonian

Multnomah County’s failure, again, to spend millions of dollars budgeted for helping homeless people get housed is a demoralizing reminder that money – even a massive amount of it – won’t magically solve our crisis. Without leadership, a sound strategy and commitment to outcomes, we will be stuck in the same housing emergency that local officials declared eight years ago.

Editorial: A clarifying moment to shift course on homelessness

The city of Portland is seeking $400,000 from a local manufacturer, alleging the company is responsible for a 2018 derailment of the Portland Streetcar. In its lawsuit against Vigor Works, filed Monday and first reported by Willamette Week, Portland city attorneys allege that the company failed to comply with the terms of its contract and provide a streetcar with a working throttle and brakes.

Portland sues streetcar manufacturer over loose screw blamed in 2018 derailment

A sleepy Portland City Council meeting briefly turned tempestuous this week after two city leaders fumed over a suggestion that their decision to pause or decrease a series of fee and rate increases had perpetuated “white supremacist culture.”. The dustup began when Public Utilities Commissioner Mingus Mapps invited Sarah...

Watch: Portland water rate debate stokes ‘white supremacist’ charge. Mayor Ted Wheeler, Rene Gonzalez fume

The city of Portland is poised to pay $26,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a disabled U.S. Air Force veteran who said police threw her walker away from her as she was filming a Portland protest in August 2020 outside the Police Bureau’s North Precinct.

Portland to pay $26,000 to settle with disabled vet who said officer threw walker away from her while she filmed 2020 protest

After scaling back a utility rate hike that will kick in July 1, the Portland City Council decided to bump it back up a notch, saying it wants to preserve a new program designed to assist low-income renters. Water and sewer rates will increase 5.65% under the rule adopted Wednesday,...

Portland leaders inch up water rates they just cut, citing desire to aid low-income renters

Lake Oswego, OR

In what has become a tradition in the Oregon high school track and field scene, Lake Oswego’s Mia Brahe-Pedersen took to the track at Hayward Field and left the crowd in awe. The junior finished the event with a new Oregon state record of 11.00 seconds. That beats her...

Lake Oswego’s Mia Brahe-Pedersen finishes the 100-meter dash with another Oregon high school record

Portland police identified a 22-year-old Gresham woman on Thursday as the person whose remains officers found in Southeast Portland’s Pleasant Valley neighborhood in December. Kristin Smith was reported missing on Dec. 22. Officers responded Feb. 19 to a report of human remains in a wooded area near Southeast Deardorff...

Police identify human remains found in SE Portland as Gresham woman, 22

California State

During the decade I lived in North Portland, most of my discussions about the Portland International Raceway were with neighbors frustrated about the constant noise of revving engines coming from the other side of the Columbia Slough. I also recall a dive bar or two with banners hanging out front...

10 Portland restaurants every NASCAR fan should try

Vancouver, WA

Planners for a new Interstate 5 bridge on Thursday introduced six possible designs for the proposed Columbia River span. While key details are still uncertain — including when it might be built and how the $7.5 billion construction project would be funded — the new renderings show for the first time what the bridge could look like and how it would affect the skyline of the surrounding cities.

Interstate Bridge replacement planners unveil 6 potential designs, from ‘finback’ to a familiar lift span

Letter writer Nathan Oleson and I agree on one thing: downtown is unsafe, (“Readers respond: Only safety will save downtown,” May 21). But not for the reasons he lists, most of which don’t pose actual threats to the safety of downtown visitors and workers like me. While...

Readers respond: Bad drivers make downtown unsafe

San Diego, CA

The Portland Thorns were making crisp passes, playing on the front foot, and pressing hard. But all that technical quality could not muster a goal for nearly 90 minutes on Friday against the San Diego Wave. Then, it was rookie Reyna Reyes who broke through, scoring on a header in...

On late header by Reyna Reyes, Portland Thorns pull out 1-1 draw at San Diego Wave

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler aims to ban people from pitching tents on public land anywhere in the city during daytime hours and restrict camping around-the-clock near schools and more than a dozen other locations, he announced Thursday. Homeless individuals who violate the proposed new rules more than two times —or...

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler seeks to criminalize homeless people’s daytime camping, warming fires

It’s time for people living near Forest Park to take down their bird feeders, lock up their trash and secure their beehives; there’s at least one bear in town, and it’s hungry, wildlife experts said. As of Thursday, Portlanders had reported six black bear sightings within eight...

Trash-loving black bear spotted 6 times in 8 days in NW Portland, wildlife experts say

Jesuit won its third straight girls lacrosse state championship on Friday night as the Crusaders rolled past Lake Oswego 15-10 on Friday night at Tualatin High School. With Jesuit leading 7-2 at halftime, the second half of Friday’s contest was a scoring barrage for both teams.

Photos: Jesuit beats Lake Oswego 15-10 to win Oregon Girls Lacrosse Association state championship

Salem, OR

DeMari Thompson has always been a now-person. The present is where he wants to hover. It’s where he’s at his most comfortable. It’s partly why you won’t hear him talk openly about his college goals or the next personal record he’s got in his sights. He does, of course, have aspirations in both of those facets. But the North Salem junior doesn’t want to entangle himself in the pitfalls of predictions.

Balancing act: Even the state’s fastest sprinter, North Salem’s DeMari Thompson, needs to catch his breath at times

The man accused of setting the fire that destroyed a 113-year-old apartment building near downtown Portland on May 16 has a string of prior arrests and was slapped with a restraining order the day before the blaze broke out, court records show. Garrett A. Repp was arrested Thursday evening on...

‘He’s just been a wrecking ball’: Accused arsonist in SW Portland apartment fire hit with stalking order day before blaze

The two police officers were stopped at a red light in Northeast Portland last Saturday when they noticed the gray car. It had no license plate – and the Oregon DMV Trip Permit stuck to the back window didn’t look quite right. The officers ran the number of the permit, which allows for the temporary use of an unregistered vehicle, and determined it was indeed fake.

Stolen car weaves through Portland traffic at 95 miles per hour, leads officers to chop shop, police say

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Oregon says Legacy Health can’t close the Gresham birth center it already closed

Oregon regulators have denied Legacy Health’s request to close its birthing center at Mount Hood Medical...

Oregon says Legacy Health can’t close the Gresham birth center it already closed

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