Oregon State

Portland, OR

PORTLAND, Ore. — Multiple residents of Southeast Portland's Laurelhurst neighborhood woke up to smashed windows on their cars Sunday morning. Portland police said the smash and grabs happened between Saturday evening and Sunday morning along Southeast 32nd Avenue between Ankeny and Pine streets. Police said it appears the break-ins...

Car windows shattered in SE Portland amid rash of ‘smash and grab’ burglaries

PORTLAND, Ore. — The owner of a vintage sportswear boutique store in Old Town said he decided to relocate to Northeast Alberta after four years due to the spike in crime in the area. Chris Yen owns the store "Laundry," located on Northwest 4th Avenue, since 2019. Yen said...

Crime in Old Town forces Portland store owner to move shop to east side

PORTLAND, Ore. — The streets outside Portland's Lloyd Center became host to an alarming sight Saturday night: streets blocked with cars doing donuts, burnouts and other stunts, all while hundreds of people stood around and watched. Some spectators were dangerously close to the action, taunting the drivers on. Videos...

Portland police explain why they couldn't respond to Lloyd Center street takeover Saturday night

PORTLAND, Ore. — Dozens of trailers, vehicles and broken-down RVs line both sides of Northeast 33rd Drive. It’s an area just off Marine Drive, west of the Portland International Airport, and over the years it has turned into a makeshift homeless village. The seemingly never-ending line of camps...

'It's a bunch of crap': Portland plans to remove camps along sections of Northeast 33rd Drive

Vancouver, WA

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Vancouver police have asked the public to help them find a missing mother and daughter. Meshay Melendez, 27, and her 8-year-old daughter, Layla Stewart, were last seen in the area of Northeast Vancouver Mall Drive and 77th Avenue in Vancouver in the early morning on Sunday, March 12.

Vancouver police search for missing mother, 8-year-old daughter

PORTLAND, Ore. — The frontage roads along Southeast Powell Boulevard are often filled with tents, vehicles and RVs. On Tuesday morning there was a different structure: barriers blocking traffic along three of the inlets. It’s the City of Portland's latest attempt to deter traffic and homeless camping along high-crash...

'More needs to be done': City puts up barriers along sections of SE Powell to deter homeless camps, traffic

Along Southeast Powell, the new additions are meant to block camping in areas like frontage roads. But are they actually working?

Portland puts up barriers and signs meant to block homeless camps

PORTLAND, Ore. — One person died at the Hollywood East Apartments late Thursday night in what police are calling a suspected overdose. Portland Fire & Rescue says their crews were called to what appears to be three medical incidents at the building on Northeast Broadway near 44th Avenue about an hour apart.

Suspected overdose death at Northeast Portland apartment building

PORTLAND, Ore. — Cracker Barrel announced Monday that it is closing three of the remaining four locations in Oregon, seven months after it closed its Jantzen Beach store. Employees at the Beaverton, Tualatin and Bend locations were notified Monday that the three stores were closing, effective immediately, the company told KGW. Only one Cracker Barrel remains open in Oregon, the Southern Oregon location in Medford.

Cracker Barrel closes 3 more Oregon locations, 2 in Portland metro area

Arizona State

PORTLAND, Ore. — Firefighters rescued a 14-year-old dog that fell down a manhole in Southeast Portland's Sellwood neighborhood Friday morning. Portland Fire & Rescue said the Labrador retriever, named Tess, fell about 23 feet down the hole near the intersection of Southeast 9th Avenue and Lambert Street, just afer 10 a.m. The manhole cover was off because city workers were inspecting it, according to Linda and Larry Beutler, Tess' owners.

Dog rescued after falling nearly 25 feet down manhole in Southeast Portland

Washington State

Beaverton, OR

ALOHA, Ore. — Southwest Tualatin Valley Highway is closed in both directions in Aloha, about three miles west of Beaverton, after a fatal crash Friday morning. The closure stretches from Southwest 174th Avenue to Southwest 182nd Avenue and will remain in place until deputies have finished their investigation at the scene of the crash. At around 4:30 a.m., the Washington County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) tweeted that the closure would last several hours.

Fatal crash closes stretch of Tualatin Valley Highway about 3 miles west of Beaverton

PORTLAND, Ore. — Spring is right around the corner. For many, the warmer temperatures mean one thing - gardening. “It’s so fun to be here when everyone has spring fever and is excited,” Katie, a manager at Portland Nursery off Stark in East Portland. Katie tells KGW...

Frost dates and spring outdoor planting tips for Portland metro area

PORTLAND, Oregon — The city of Portland is removing hundreds of light poles from Portland parks as part of its Light Pole Safety Project. Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) said the city recently inspected 1,000 light poles, some of them more than a 100-years-old, and found that 243 of them across 12 parks were structurally unsound and needed to be removed.

City of Portland to remove hundreds of lampposts from parks due to safety issues

Hawaii State

PORTLAND, Ore. — A woman's 1999 Subaru was stolen in November 2021, sold to a Portland used car dealership and then sold and shipped to someone in Hawaii. She didn't learn about this until a year later. “My car fell through the cracks even though I notified everybody I...

How a stolen car was sold to a Portland dealership and ended up in Hawaii

PORTLAND, Ore. — A man has been arrested and charged with manslaughter in connection to a suspicious death in April 2021, police said. The man's wife, who is a non-sworn Portland Police Bureau employee, was also arrested on charges of hindering prosecution, official misconduct and tampering with evidence. Portland...

Goose Hollow homicide suspect arrested; spouse arrested for hindering prosecution

Battle Ground, WA

BATTLE GROUND, Wash. — A counselor at Battle Ground High School was arrested last week after being accused of assaulting a child. According to school officials, she was placed on administrative leave Friday. Dawn Pack has been charged with second-degree assault of a child and interfering with the report...

Battle Ground High School counselor accused of assaulting a child

PORTLAND, Ore. — Port of Portland police are investigating a shooting that left a man and a woman dead at Embassy Suites near the Portland International Airport early Wednesday morning. Officers responded to the hotel near Northeast 82nd Way and Northeast Airport Way around 2 a.m. The Port of...

2 people killed in shooting at Embassy Suites near PDX

Multnomah County, OR

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Multnomah County Health Department is warning some employees and clients that some of their personal information may have been accessed during a break-in last month. A person physically broke into the department's downtown headquarters over the weekend of February 18, the county said in a...

Records may have been accessed in Multnomah County Health Department break-in

Iowa State

PORTLAND, Ore. — Just a few days into 2023, smoke and fire filled the sky in downtown Portland as a historic church that had stood at the corner of Southwest 10th and Clay for more than a century went up in flames. Three days after the building was gutted...

'My faith was grown there': Portland woman recalls her family's ties with the old Clay Street church

California State

PORTLAND, Ore. — Residents of northeast Portland's Montavilla neighborhood gathered Saturday afternoon at the Eastside Church of Christ for a town hall meeting about the proposed sanctioned camping sites. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was invited to answer questions from the audience and listen to their concerns. "What's happening in...

Mayor Wheeler attends town hall meeting in NE Portland, answers questions about city's homeless crisis

PORTLAND, Ore. — People write books about all sorts of things. In the Portland metro area, one topic seems to be very appealing among children's authors: bananas. Three local authors, recently and randomly, drew inspiration from bananas, each writing or illustrating a book featuring the yellow fruit. The women behind these books have also formed a special bond.

Portland children's authors form quite a bunch with banana books: 'What are the odds?'

PORTLAND, Ore. — Jeremy Hanson describes his music as part blues and rock with a pop feel. He's the lead singer and co-songwriter of his band, Bent Spokes Posse, based in Portland. "Songs just started getting pumped out and two years later, we're up to like two albums worth...

Scammers target Portland band asking for money in exchange for Rolling Stone magazine article

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Portland Gay Men's Chorus presents The Body Electric on March 25 and 26 at the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts. The concert centers around the theme that everyone has the right to lead lives of freedom, peace and joy. The Body Electric honors the...

Portland Gay Men's Chorus presents 'The Body Electric'

PORTLAND, Ore. — It's been a three-year fight to keep the city of Portland from interfering with a skatepark that was hand-built by skaters in the Lents neighborhood. The Feral Cat Cove Skatepark, named after the cats that hang out in the back, was built without permission from the city or a permit.

Portland skaters start new petition to keep DIY skatepark from being torn down

PORTLAND, Ore. — It's officially St. Patrick's Day weekend! Last weekend we had a head start to the festivities with the annual Shamrock Run on Sunday, but this weekend the real fun starts. From drinking beer to drinking even more beer, here are a few festivities for the holiday happening around Portland (and other fun events).

Things to do this weekend in Portland for St. Patrick's Day | March 17-19

Salem, OR

Grand Ronde, OR

GRAND RONDE, Ore. — In the community of Grand Ronde, west of Salem, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde have a popular food pantry which serves as a gathering place, too. Food boxes are distributed two days a week. They call this place Iskam MәkMәk-Haws, which means "house where you get food."

Pantry delivers more than food in Grand Ronde

GRAND RONDE, Ore. — The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde is working to support homeless tribal members with two new "tiny shelter" villages. The first village opened a few weeks ago, and tribal leaders are already building the second. The community northwest of Salem, off Highway 22 on the...

Grand Ronde tribal community debuts 'tiny shelter' villages

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Car stolen from Portland woman’s driveway later spotted at nearby homeless camp

PORTLAND, Ore. — A new car was stolen from a woman’s driveway in southeast Portland on Tuesday and later spotted at a nearby homeless camp. This...

Car stolen from Portland woman’s driveway later spotted at nearby homeless camp

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