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A judge this week handed down almost the maximum sentence available to a rookie driver who was speeding away from a minor crash when he struck and killed a Portland motorcyclist nearly three years ago. The punishment — two years and 10 months in state prison — came Tuesday after...

Driver who killed Portland motorcyclist while fleeing fender bender sent to prison

Two of the three victims in Saturday’s deadly daylight shooting were high school students, according to statements from Portland Public Schools. They were identified as Eskender Tamra, 17, a junior at Franklin High School, and Isaac Daudi, 19, a senior at Roosevelt High School. In emails to school families,...

2 Portland high school students among victims in weekend triple homicide

Multnomah County, OR

Saint Helens, OR

A St. Helens man driving a suspected stolen car suffered serious injuries from a head-on crash Tuesday night, police said. Kyle Christopher Voltz, driving an SUV, rammed a police car in the Lombard Transit Center parking lot shortly after 7:30 p.m. and sped off, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies had stopped Voltz, believing he was in a stolen car.

Driver of suspected stolen car flees wrong way on I-405, causing head-on crash, serious injuries, police say

Some Portland parks won’t be going dark after all. Commissioner Dan Ryan, who oversees the parks bureau, plans to introduce an emergency ordinance next Wednesday that would allow park officials to more quickly acquire replacement light poles as part of a new phased approach to remove 243 unsound lampposts from city parks.

Portland will move more quickly to replace unsound lampposts in popular parks

Oregon State

Gresham, OR

Oregon regulators have denied Legacy Health’s request to close its birthing center at Mount Hood Medical Center in Gresham, finding that the closure could endanger pregnant patients and their babies. The decision escalates a high-stakes standoff, since Legacy went ahead with the shutdown two weeks ago even without approval...

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

O’Bryant Square reopens this fall for the first time in five years, and when it does visitors will stroll right into the middle of the extremes roiling downtown Portland. The half-acre brick plaza closed in 2018 because of structural problems with the underground parking garage that was a condition of the donor who gave the land to the city decades earlier. Named for Portland’s first mayor, Hugh O’Bryant, it’s been fenced off since 2018 as the city put together plans to carefully fill the garage, work finally due to begin as soon as next month.

Fences come down at Portland’s troubled O’Bryant Square this fall. What comes next?

Cota, Johnson and Ebert are members of the board of BikeLoud PDX. Portland used to be America’s darling when it came to biking. Year over year, more people were biking to work throughout the 2000s and early 2010s. Compared to the national average of 0.6% of people biking to work, Portland in 2014 led the pack at 7.2%, with reason to expect growth into the future. The city set a goal of 1 in 4 people biking to work by 2030, and national and international study tours came to find out how we did it.

Opinion: Portland leaders need to take getting people on bikes more seriously

Oregon’s engineers care deeply about our communities, which is why we invest in our local economy, creating jobs and housing. I am vice president of Central Geotechnical LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned emerging small business with 18 employees. We appreciate public projects that require the involvement of small and minority-owned engineering firms. However, it is hard for our businesses to get involved when the contracts include language that could bankrupt us.

Readers respond: State should limit ‘duty to defend’

Pickleball. What was once a game we played for a week or two in the winter in gym class is now, apparently, a national craze. But for first cousins Dave Sacks and Dave Schrott (yes, they are first cousins and both named “Dave” and no, neither of them seems very perturbed by that reality), the idea of opening a pickleball facility came before the national trend.

First look inside The People’s Courts, Portland’s soon-to-open pickleball/bar project

Portland institution Hotlips Pizza will close three of its five restaurants, effective immediately. The 39-year-old business, known for local ingredients and fruit sodas, announced Monday that it would close locations at Northeast 33rd Avenue and Killingsworth Street, in the Hollywood District and near Providence Park, citing economic and labor issues, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Classic Portland pizza chain Hotlips closes most locations

Arizona State

Hillsboro, OR

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 shuttle service as we reduce employee travel as part of our ongoing cost-cutting efforts and are asking employees to use commercial flights for approved travel during this time,” spokesperson Eleonora Akopyan confirmed in an email to The Oregonian/OregonLive.

Intel grounds employee air shuttle to save costs

With all this rain Portland has been getting, hiding eggs in lush tall grass should be easy this Easter. Still making your egg hunt plans? Many of this year’s events are requiring reservations, and some are already sold out prior to April. So you’d better hop to it.

Still deciding on your Portland-area Easter egg hunt plans? You’d better hop to it!

The wolverine spotted last Monday along the Columbia River near Portland made an appearance on Wednesday in Damascus and another over the weekend in Beavercreek. Teri Lysak, wolverine tracking project coordinator with Cascadia Wild, said the sightings have surprised wildlife experts with the Portland-based nonprofit in part because the wolverine population is so small. Only about 300 to 1,000 wolverines still roam the United States.

Additional wolverine sightings in Oregon offer clues about its movement

The court ruling that allows for camping in the streets, Martin v. Boise, does not say we cannot impose limits on when and where the homeless camp. Why not ban unsanctioned street camping in Portland between the hours of 9 a.m. and 10 p.m.?. Allowing people to set up semi-permanent...

Readers respond: Homeless should pack and move daily

Intel plans to build a new, modestly sized manufacturing support building on its main Oregon manufacturing campus. The chipmaker says will enable new production technologies and future growth at its Hillsboro research factory, called D1X. “This planned building will support the existing D1X operations and ensures we are ready for...

Planned Intel building could point to future Oregon factory expansion

The James Beard Foundation on Wednesday announced the finalists for the 2023 Restaurant and Chef Awards, and three Portland restaurants and one Ashland restaurant were among the honorees. Chef Gregory Gourdet’s Haitian-inspired Kann was among the 10 finalists for the Best New Restaurant Award, which recognizes places demonstrating excellence in...

3 Portland restaurants among finalists for 2023 James Beard restaurant and chef awards

Texas State

Three players from the Portland Thorns will spend just over a week with the U.S. women’s national team in early April. Crystal Dunn, Becky Sauerbrunn and Sophia Smith were all called up to USWNT for two friendly matches against Ireland on April 8 and 11. They will be with the U.S. squad from April 3-11 and will not miss any Thorns matches.

Trio of Portland Thorns players called up to USWNT for April FIFA window

Tennessee State

The front page obituary of Portland’s iconic drag queen Darcelle should be required reading for the likes of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, (“Walter Cole, Portland’s legendary drag queen Darcelle and civic icon, dies at 92,” March 23). But oh, no. That issue of The Oregonian/OregonLive would be banned from their school libraries!

Readers respond: Darcelle modeled authentic life

The newest face on the practice field for the Portland Timbers is a welcome one. Amid injuries, inconsistency and struggles to score, Ivorian forward Franck Boli arrives at the club with an opportunity to make an immediate, positive impact as he works his way into the fold. Boli joined the...

Franck Boli brings experience, goal-scoring ability to shorthanded Portland Timbers: ‘He’s excited’

Alaska State

Wednesday morning’s clearing skies and light winds are bringing fog to the metro area. Nighttime low temperatures may even bring some freezing fog to outlying locations. The National Weather Service says frost or fog are likely in many areas early Wednesday. Fog was seen on traffic cameras across the region including in Washington and Clark counties. Once the fog clears, Portland should see a mostly dry day with some light showers lingering from Tuesday’s system. Skies will be partly sunny by the afternoon, and the high temperature will reach near 56 degrees.

Portland sees early Wednesday fog, frost, then a partly sunny afternoon; high 56

Thursday continues the fleeting hit of dry weather Portland has seen over the last two days. But don’t get used to it. Friday will be wet. Heavy cloud cover is keeping fog at bay Thursday morning, but skies will remain cloudy and could produce some rain later in the afternoon. Portland’s high will be about 52 degrees.

Portland gets mostly dry, cloudy day Thursday, slight chance of afternoon showers; high 52

Salem, OR

Gov. Tina Kotek signed a $200 million bipartisan housing and homelessness package at a bill signing ceremony in Salem on Wednesday. Her signature will enable $30 million to be immediately pushed out to local communities to fund eviction prevention, rent assistance and some state staffing costs. The remainder of the funding will become available July 1, the start of the next fiscal year.

Gov. Tina Kotek signs $200 million housing, homelessness package

Portland Trail Blazers’ forward Justise Winslow underwent successful left ankle surgery Wednesday at Atrium Health Mercy in Charlotte, N.C., the franchise announced. Winslow, the Blazers said, is expected to be ready for the 2023-24 season. He will become an unrestricted free agent this offseason. The Blazers, with eight players...

Trail Blazers’ Justise Winslow undergoes surgery, team signs guard Skylar Mays from G League

The Portland Trail Blazers play the first of two games against the Sacramento Kings this week Wednesday night at the Moda Center. The Blazers will be without four starters making winning next to impossible against a Kings team that has the third best record in the NBA. The Blazers (32-43)...

Portland Trail Blazers vs. Sacramento Kings: Game preview, time, TV channel, how to watch free live stream online

Utah State

If it wasn’t already obvious, the Portland Trail Blazers franchise has no intentions of doing whatever they can to win another game this season. That process includes sitting Damian Lillard for the rest of the season. Multiple NBA sources have confirmed to The Oregonian/OregonLive that the Blazers will not...

Trail Blazers’ Damian Lillard won’t play again this season: Sources

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Man shot by police during Biden’s Portland visit attacked driver with ‘sharpened’ tent stake, court docs say

Portland police shot and wounded a man last month after he tried...

Man shot by police during Biden’s Portland visit attacked driver with ‘sharpened’ tent stake, court docs say

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