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A Banks junior high school soccer player is drawing attention to the amount of plastic on Oregon’s beaches by organizing a team cleanup.

For a small town like Umatilla in eastern Oregon, a lot of high school students are looking for an opportunity to do big things.

Residents of a low-income apartment building in northeast Portland said they feel unsafe because of what’s allowed to go on right outside their doorstep.

To update its progress, Frog Ferry hosted its first-ever Portland Ferry Conference on Tuesday.

Big changes are coming soon for death investigations in Oregon, and now local counties are scrambling to prepare.

The city of Tualatin is hoping to improve traffic flow to I-5 with changes being made this summer.

Census data shows Portland lost the sixth-most people in the U.S. in the last year.

From childhood sports, playing in local parks with friends, to the life-and-death moments that came to define his young adulthood.

The Banks Fire District said it doesn’t normally see this type of high wildfire danger this early.

An Oregon City man is getting a second chance with his smile, thanks to a dental surgeon and dentist who are fitting him with dental implants, free of charge.

Not solved, but cases gone cold; the vast majority of shootings never end with arrest.

Oregon State Police say a change is necessary to handle a “worsening crisis” within the state Medical Examiner’s Division.

A local family is sharing their heartbreaking loss in hopes of warning others of the dangers of fake pills.

In the midst of a mental health epidemic for teens around Oregon, a local organization is working to use art and expression as a relief from stress and anxiety.

Despite efforts to improve on the amount of plastics it recycles, Oregon is still failing to meet its recycling goals.

Researchers realized the old way of measuring wildfire smoke wasn’t working.

Illicit fentanyl: now king of the opioid crisis and linked to tens of thousands of deaths in the U.S.

An effort to deter homeless camping in North Portland has had a significant impact on a natural area, drawing criticism from neighbors.

The FBI is offering a $25,000 reward to catch the killer who shot a young Portland mother to death last year.

Fentanyl is the big buzz word in the world of drugs, addiction, public health, and teen safety.

Portland is still considering using gunshot detection technology.

A Vancouver parent is frustrated with what he sees as the school district’s lack of response to incidents involving racial bias.

During the spring, over three quarters of the water in the Bonneville Dam goes over the spillway.

Hospital staffing shortages remain a critical issue in Oregon, as lawmakers consider a new bill that would require hospitals to maintain certain staffing levels.

The Portland White House, and all of the years of history included with it, are up for sale.

Oregon Rep. Suzanne Bonamici sat down with FOX 12 on Thursday to talk about about gun violence, the Bill of Rights for Students and Parents, climate change, Former President Donald Trump’s indictment, expanding broadband internet access, and more.

The Chinook tribe has a long and storied history in the Pacific Northwest.

Portland Police’s drug K-9′s are now trained to sniff out fentanyl.

A Vancouver mother is able to take on hearing loss much easier.

It’s been over 30 years since a wolverine sighting outside the lower mountains in northeast Oregon. Yet, over the last week or so, Portlanders have reported two sightings in the area alone.

A technology that tracks the location of domestic violence offenders using a GPS ankle monitor and a corresponding app that provides real-time alerts to victims and police has the potential to save lives.

Here are four places around the city to get the best look.

The long migration for a blue whale found washed up on the Oregon coast in 2015 is not over yet.

After 32 years, Kornblatt’s Deli on Northwest 23rd Avenue in Portland has announced it’s closing its doors on March 31.

Oregon Congresswoman Andrea Salinas discusses mental health, farm bill, congressional divide, Oregon's 6th district.

Oregon State Parks don’t just go from one year to the next without any repairs being done.

A plan to move Hillsboro’s industrial zone doesn’t have everyone on board.

COVID-19 cases have plummeted, leaving even some doctors to lower their level of concern.

They found projectile points, or early versions of weapons, that are more than 2,000 years older than previous ones found in the Americas.

The block of Southwest Fourth Avenue between Salmon Street and Taylor Street has been slow to recover.