Police: One dead in car crash Monday in Northeast Portland's Saban neighborhood

PORTLAND, Ore. — Police say they found the person who struck and injured a tow truck driver along Interstate 84 westbound in Portland early Sunday morning. The injured tow truck driver was released from the hospital Wednesday and is recovering at home, police said. According to officials, the hit-and-run...

HILLSBORO, Ore. — Hillsboro Police arrested a murder suspect who is accused of killing a man found dead inside a vehicle in an Intel parking garage on Friday evening. Steven Milner, 55, was arrested Tuesday in Clackamas County. He was charged in the murder of 56-year-old Kenneth Fandrich of Oregon City.

The suspect of a Northeast Portland crime spree who police say allegedly carjacked someone after arming himself with a meat cleaver has been booked into the Multnomah County Jail after police found him hiding in the attic of a home. Christopher Sean O’Connor, 30, is facing two counts of first-degree...

PORTLAND, Ore. — UPDATE: Portland Fire tells KATU that a fire began in the laundry room on the bravo deck of the ship named the Breeze. The 636-foot-long vessel had just been loaded with 37,000 tons of wheat. The Breeze's crew performed the initial fire attack before Portland Fire...

NEWBERG, Ore. — Oregon State Police continue to investigate a fatal crash on Highway 18 in Yamhill County. At 4:25 p.m. Monday, January 30, OSP responded to a two-vehicle crash near milepost 52. The preliminary investigation reveals that 52-year-old Eric Hall of Newberg was driving a gray 2003 Dodge...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Two armed robbery suspects were taken into custody Wednesday after an hours-long search prompted police to ask a Southeast Portland neighborhood to shelter in place. Portland Police officers were first called out at about 6:30 a.m. on reports of a robbery at a convenience store in...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell joined community leaders at a vigil to honor the life of Tyre Nichols on Tuesday. The group spoke out on the need for change. Nichols died in a Memphis hospital earlier this month. Body cam footage showing five now fired, charged...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — The Clark County Sheriff's Office is asking for any witnesses or anyone with evidence to step forward in helping the investigation of a late-night shooting incident in Vancouver. Police say that around 1:40 a.m. on February 2, the victim caught two suspects prowling vehicles in the...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Portland Police Memorial was vandalized earlier in the week, the Portland Police Association says. The vandalism apparently happened overnight between January 31 and February 1. The Memorial commemorates Portland Police officers who were killed in the line of duty. "The Police Memorial is a place...

PORTLAND, Ore. — More than six months after a man was shot and killed in Southeast Portland, police have arrested a woman for his murder, in Arizona. CONTINUING COVERAGE | Family wants justice in deadly Southeast Portland shooting. 43-year-old Janae Kelley was taken into custody by US Marshals on...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Multnomah County Judge has assessed that Brianna Workman, who is accused of a December 2022 attack in which she allegedly shoved a 3-year-old onto the tracks at a MAX station, is fit to stand trial on assault and other charges. The judge made this ruling...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Work continues to clear a rockslide on Oregon 229, the Siletz Highway, in the Oregon Coast Range. ODOT will open one lane for traffic from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. each night. The road will close again at 8 a.m. each day until they can remove...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A man was killed in a stabbing in Downtown Portland late Tuesday night, police say. Law enforcement responded to a stabbing call at the 1200 block of Southwest Park Avenue, in front of the Portland Art Museum, shortly before 11 p.m. Officers at the scene found...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Fire investigators are trying to figure out what started a fire Monday morning near Southeast 86th and Stark in Portland. Crews say when they got there, flames were coming from a second-story unit and firefighters were able to extinguish it. Officials say the building was under...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Suspected serial killer Warren Forrest was found guilty today of murder in the death of Martha Morrison. PAST COVERAGE | Warren Forrest on trial for another murder, scary new details emerge in witness testimony. Morrison's body was found in Clark County in 1974 but investigators didn't...

CLARK COUNTY, Wash. — Clark County deputies say they found a man dead a day after a boat capsized and he went missing in the North Fork of the Lewis River. Someone called 911 at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday after seeing the small aluminum boat capsize near river mile 13 of the North Fork of the Lewis River.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Along Southeast 157th Avenue in Portland, you'll see recreational vehicles, campers, and vans parked along the curb. The problem is, as in many neighborhoods, they don't belong to homeowners - they're campers. One of them was invited here by neighbor Herbert Smiley. "I was just trying...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — The trial for a Camas woman accused of killing her husband is now underway in Clark County. Stephanie Westby is charged with murder and domestic violence in the shooting death of Joe Westby in 2019. Westby's attorney claims she acted in self-defense after confronting her husband...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland’s population is on the decline after decades of growth. This past year, Portland State University reported Multnomah County lost more than 2,300 people, a trend we’ve been seeing since 2020. Experts say the problem may no longer just be the pandemic, but the...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Goose Hollow neighborhood was left in the dark during an early-morning power outage on Tuesday. According to Portland General Electric, the outage was initially reported at 3:25 a.m. By 6 a.m., almost 1,900 customers were left without power. A KATU photojournalist on the scene reported...