Portland, OR

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. — 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

Oregon State

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

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. — Oregon Democratic lawmakers have introduced three bills that they hope will cut down on the gun violence within the state. For many Portlanders, some kind of fix can't come soon enough. House Bill 2005 would ban so-called "ghost guns," which are homemade guns assembled from parts...

North Portland business riddled with bullet holes; owner wants solutions

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 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. — 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

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, 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

PORTLAND, Ore. — Time magazine is highlighting something many Oregonians already know to be true: The Willamette Valley is a top destination for wine. Oregon's popular winemaking region — which Time has dubbed "the next Napa" — earned a spot on the magazine's 5th annual list of the 'World's Greatest Places.'

'The next Napa': Willamette Valley makes Time's list of 'World's Greatest Places'

Illinois State

PORTLAND, Oregon — The Rose Festival has been a long standing Portland tradition stemming since 1907 with multiple festivities. This year the festivities commence from Friday, May 26 through Sunday, June 11.The massive festival is put on by the nonprofit Portland Rose Festival Association, and includes three separate parades along with other festivities promoting the community within the Rose City.

Meet the 2023 Rose Festival court princesses

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Vancouver, WA

VANCOUVER, Wash. — The family of a missing Vancouver mother and daughter who disappeared more than a week ago is clinging to hope that they'll be found soon and unharmed. 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 hours of Sunday, March 12.

'No coincidences in crime': Family of missing Vancouver mother and child speak out as search continues

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 Portland Police Bureau (PPB) is investigating multiple overnight shootings in downtown Portland that left one person hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. At around 2 a.m. officers patrolling the downtown area heard shots fired on the south side of West Burnside Street between Southwest 3rd and 4th...

1 person shot in downtown Portland after multiple shootings, police say

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

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

Texas State

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Thorns forward Janine Beckie tore a ligament in her right knee and will miss the National Women's Soccer League season and the World Cup this summer with Canada. Beckie tore her ACL in a preseason game between the Thorns and the U.S. under-23 women's national...

'Heartbroken is an understatement': Portland Thorns forward Janine Beckie out of World Cup, NWSL season with knee injury

Hood River, OR

PORTLAND, Oregon — A Hood River man has a new heart and deepened appreciation for a lifelong friend. Steve Ulrich, 66, received a heart transplant in December at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Southwest Portland. But before getting on a transplant waiting list, doctors told Ulrich he would need someone to commit to being a temporary, in-house caregiver to him for three months. Ulrich reached out to his close friend, Leigh Rubin.

'Quite an adventure': Cartoonist helps lifelong friend through heart transplant

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

Grand Ronde, OR

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

Beaverton, OR

BEAVERTON, Ore. — Grammy Award-winning rapper Megan Pete, who goes by the stage name Megan Thee Stallion, was spotted on social media by fans at the Nike Headquarters in Beaverton on Tuesday. Social media users speculated that since she has a partnership with Nike, the Texas native may have...

Grammy Award-winning artist Megan Thee Stallion spotted in Oregon

Salem, 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

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

Washington State

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. — 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

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Portland Winter Lights Festival begins this weekend

PORTLAND, Ore. — It's no secret that winter in Portland can feel like a dreary time for some people, thanks to continuous months of gray skies...

Portland Winter Lights Festival begins this weekend

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