The Joint Office of Homeless Services believes adding beds at Bybee Lakes is more cost-effective than replacing those that will be lost at the Downtown Shelter.

After months of planning, Multnomah County leaders have decided on a location in Southeast Portland for a new permanent sobering center.

Do Good Multnomah, a homeless services nonprofit funded by Multnomah County, plans to close the shelter it operates in the ...

Multnomah County’s new district attorney Nathan Vasquez ... In the short term, you’re going to see people being released out of jail because it’s “too full now.” But that “too full ...

Police said that 47-year-old Jonathan Trent “was shot after witnessing a robbery and attempting to stop” the suspects ...

The first person to die in a Multnomah County jail since July was a 46-year-old man booked on a theft charge, court records show. Carlos Robert Morris died in the Multnomah County Detention Center ...

District Attorney Nathan Vasquez cited a survey in which employees expressed they want leaders “to be present and available ...

Multnomah County is in talks to fund an additional ... Hope Center inside North Portland’s former but never-used Wapato Jail in October 2020. Since then, 3,350 people have been served at the ...

A 48-year-old Oregon man was arrested and booked into the Multnomah County Jail on Jan. 21 for an outstanding warrant for 20 ...

Multnomah County says its new 24-hour sobering ... as a means of providing deflection services to people who accept treatment over jail. That location will be expanded to offer 13 sobering beds ...

The woman arrested earlier this week as the first apprehension under Multnomah County's new law increasing penalities for ...