A 33-year-old former mixed martial arts fighter was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Friday for raping three houseless women, the Multnomah Co. DA said.
There’s no better mark of autumn in Portland than the annual roost of Vaux’s swifts, but this year the birds appear to have abandoned their longtime roost at Chapman Elementary for new spots, including Abernathy Elementary.
Several families are displaced after a three-alarm fire in Aloha destroyed an apartment building, including one family where a deaf mother saw the flames and acted swiftly, rescuing her and her son.
The Salem-Keizer Public Schools announced on Thursday that all of its middle schools will begin adding weapon detection systems this year, but it will be a year-long process.
A man and his son are dead after a driver, who police believe was high on marijuana, crashed into them as they were walking home from the bus stop on Wednesday in Vancouver.
A 37-year-old man has been charged after a deadly shooting outside a bar in the Montavilla neighborhood early Thursday, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
A 66-year-old man was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison after sexually abusing a young boy at a swimming pool in Tualatin, the DA's office said on Thursday.
The U.S. Department of Energy will move forward with a long-planned program to treat nuclear waste at the Hanford Site, according to a Washington lawmaker.
A Longview man who works as a school principal in Oregon has been arrested on child exploitation charges after investigators linked him to online accounts that shared child sexual abuse images, authorities said Wednesday.
A 21-year-old has been arrested on charges including manslaughter after police say he drove a scooter carrying another person into a tractor trailer in northeast Portland.
The City of Portland will freeze most hiring and overtime for the rest of the fiscal year, which started July 1, due to a “significant” funding gap, the city announced on Wednesday.
The Oregon State Senate says they are once again delaying the vote on a bill that would fund the Department of Transportation by raising vehicle registration fees.
A man who used a pair of teenagers to help sell fentanyl was sentenced to over three years in prison on Tuesday, according to the Multnomah County DA’s Office.
Two schools went into “secure status” on Monday afternoon after a man fired a gun in a nearby home, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.
The U.S. Justice Department filed lawsuits Monday against Oregon and Maine, accusing the states of refusing to turn over voter registration data and information about how they maintain their voter rolls.
