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Portland, OR

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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

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Heat pumps can cost well over $10,000 – or much more if electrical and insulation upgrades are involved – but there’s financial help available. Tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act kicked in earlier this year, allowing taxpayers to shave a few thousand dollars off the cost of a heat pump.

Buying a heat pump? Here’s some financial help.

Multnomah County, OR

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

Bed Bath & Beyond is liquidating all its merchandise and closing its remaining three local stores — and all of its hundreds nationwide — in the wake of the home goods retailer’s bankruptcy. The store closures in the coming weeks will leave over 150,000 square feet of...

Closing Bed Bath & Beyond stores in Portland area aren’t expected to be empty for long

Mariachi music and groups are becoming more prevalent in Oregon, cropping up all over the state. With their joyful sound and infectious melodies, it’s not hard to imagine why. Portland State University is at the epicenter of this development, with their first mariachi group, Mariachi Rosa Real, stepping into the spotlight.

Mariachi Rosa Real is hitting high notes at Portland State; now they’re fundraising to look the part

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

Yes, it’s possible to install a heat pump on your own to save money. You’ll probably still need some professional help – as in an electrician, not a psychiatrist to counsel you when you wonder what you were thinking in taking on the job – but it can knock thousands off your bill.

DIYers, here’s how to install your own heat pump

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

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

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

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

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sport Oregon CEO Jim Etzel held a news conference Friday to release a letter urging WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert to consider Portland for the league’s next expansion. The letter also included the endorsement of more than 140 local businesses that offered their support for...

Sen. Ron Wyden and Jim Etzel continue efforts to bring the WNBA back to Portland

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

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

A distributor for a Mexico-based illegal drug-trafficking organization was sentenced Thursday in Portland to just over 11 years in prison. Rodrigo Lopez-Diaz , 53, was the target of a long-term wiretap investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. He had three prior drug convictions in Oregon.

Drug trafficker in Portland gets 11 years in federal prison on fourth drug distribution conviction

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

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Intel grounds employee air shuttle to save costs

Intel has stopped flying its employee air shuttle, which operated frequent flights between the chipmaker’s sites in Hillsboro, Silicon Valley and Arizona. “We temporarily paused our...

Intel grounds employee air shuttle to save costs

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