Where should the Portland area grow? It didn't take long for two very different visions to emerge Monday evening in Hillsboro when two of the most powerful men in the region squared off on the question: Up or out? Sam Adams, the mayor of Portland, made it clear that he questions the current push ... Full Story »
Portland police have arrested Kristina Collette Landrum, the suspect in the Dec. 5 stabbing death of Amanda Sheppard. Landrum, 41, allegedly stabbed Sheppard, 27, in the chest with a knife during a fight about a boyfriend outside Papa Sons' Bar on Southeast Powell Boulevard. Landrum was arrested ... Full Story »
Cue the music. Five months after it was proposed, the High School for Recording Arts Portland is close to becoming a reality. The Portland School Board voted unanimously Monday night to approve the application for the proposed hip hop charter school, which would focus its academics on youth ... Full Story »
Oregon’s unemployment rate barely changed in November, down to 11.1 percent from October’s 11.2 percent. It’s still the lowest unemployment rate since February’s 10.7 percent. A year ago, the rate was 7.8 percent. That means 211,424 Oregonians were unemployed in November, ... Full Story »
Although city officials have long boasted about the purity of Portland’s drinking water, a new national survey only ranks its quality at 59th out of the 100 largest American cities. The survey found the city with the best water was Arlington, Texas. The city with the worst water was ... Full Story »
Four pets died Saturday morning and two people had to be rescued from a fire that destroyed a Metzger house. Two dogs and two cats died in the blaze, despite efforts by Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue firefighters to resuscitate them using special pet oxygen kits. Firefighters were called at ... Full Story »
A 40-year-old Forest Grove-area man died Saturday morning after he and his teenage son lost consciousness in an underground shaft on their Northwest Timmerman Road property. The teenage son survived the ordeal. Firefighters were called to the property about 15 miles northwest of Forest Grove at ... Full Story »
Volunteers and an Oregon Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter crew halted Monday evening their third day of searching on Mount Hood for two climbers missing since Friday. Search and rescue teams planned to gauge the weather situation Tuesday morning before resuming their efforts. They were ... Full Story »
Starting this week, the red and green lights high atop Kaiser Permanente’s Lloyd District building — a fixture in Portland’s skyline every holiday season — have gone dark. In its place is a blue sign that simply reads Kaiser Permanente. No, it’s not an effort to ... Full Story »
Some unemployed Oregonians are getting fake cell phone text messages warning them that their state-funded benefit cards are being de-activated, setting them up for possible ID theft. Oregon’s Employment Department said Friday that unemployed people using the ReliaCard Visa debit cards should ... Full Story »
The Oregon Trail chapter of the American Red Cross said Friday that it has responded to about 30 percent more house fires since a year ago, putting a strain on its already tight budget. “This significant increase strains our budget, putting the amount of assistance we’re able to ... Full Story »
About 38,000 Oregon college students receiving state opportunity grants could see their spring term awards cut because of budget shortfalls. The Oregon Student Assistance Commission decided Thursday in Eugene that the grants would have to be reduced to balance a projected budget shortfall in its ... Full Story »
Beginning Monday, Dec. 14, anyone who wants a swine flu shot can get one. Oregon Public Health officials said Friday that there is plenty of the vaccine, which had been available only for priority groups in the past few weeks. “We have been hearing for some time that people outside the ... Full Story »
The only way the region can afford to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and maintain vital infrastructure is by curtailing suburban sprawl. But wait, where are we supposed to build the next Nike or Intel campus? In downtown Portland? For the past two years, the region’s planners and elected ... Full Story »
The man authorities say was the “ringleader” of Clackamas County based drug ring that supplied heroin to the region was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday. Attorney General John Kroger said Vidal Carrillo-Carillo ran a criminal enterprise that sold seven pounds of heroin a week, ... Full Story »
After being closed overnight because of freezing rain, Interstate 84 east of Troutdale reopened early Sunday afternoon. Despite the conditions in the Columbia River Gorge, much of the predicted snow and freezing rain stayed pretty much to the south of Portland on Friday and Friday nights. The ... Full Story »
Multnomah County Commissioners voted Thursday to recommend that 1,000 acres of land west of the Sandy River be designated as urban reserves. If the decision is upheld in coming negotiations among regional leaders, that would make those areas near Gresham and Troutdale candidates for future ... Full Story »
Portland homicide detectives are looking for a 40-year-old woman who they suspect was involved in the Saturday, Dec. 5, stabbing death of a woman outside a Southeast Portland tavern. Police issued an aggravated murder warrant for Kristina Collette Landrum, who also goes by the last name Shelton, ... Full Story »
Mt. Tabor Middle School parent Pam Cameron was just trying to help the four students who stood, shivering, outside their school building this past Monday morning, when the temperature plus dipped to near freezing. She ushered the students into the building to warm up, only to see them sent ... Full Story »
The Oregon Business Association will stay on the sidelines during the Measure 66 and 67 campaigns, a referenda drive bankrolled by business aimed at overturning two tax increases enacted this year by the Oregon Legislature. At its annual retreat on Wednesday, Dec. 9, the association’s board ... Full Story »
Multnomah County crews will complete repairs to the Morrison Bridge Friday. The westbound curb lane on the bridge will be closed from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. during repair work. After morning repairs, several short test openings of the lift span will be needed in the afternoon. Crews expect to ... Full Story »
A 33-year-old man was killed Wednesday night when he was struck by a pickup while trying to cross the Tualatin Valley Highway in Aloha. Washington County sheriff's deputies said Gabriel Juhani Karkkainen, who lived on Southwest 214th Avenue, died at the scene. The county’s Crash Analysis ... Full Story »
Our Lady of the Lake Parish will have its new school. The parish got the thumbs up from the Development Review Commission on Monday night, with one main caveat — school officials will return for a review and hearing on traffic flow one year from the opening of the new building. The proposal, ... Full Story »
Students from Bolton and Cedaroak Park Primary schools were the first in West Linn to receive the H1N1 vaccine under Clackamas County’s campaign to vaccinate children under 18. The clinic, held Monday at Cedaroak Park, was successful in distributing 300 doses of either the injection or spray ... Full Story »
Don Zehrung does not hate to say “I told you so.” But that’s mainly because he was right. The 58-year-old P.E. teacher has been working in the Beaverton School District for 36 years, and has tirelessly championed getting kids off their butts, even as society and technology has ... Full Story »
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