A judge pressed lawyers on whether Portland jail officials did enough to protect inmates as tear gas seeped in from nearby ...

A Multnomah County civil jury slapped a convicted drunk driver with $20 million in damages Monday for killing a librarian beloved by local children for her storytime tales. Jeanie Diaz was waiting for ...

The 2011 fatal shooting of Deondrae Clark, 25, spurred a series of what police at the time said were gang retaliation ...

The man who killed a 40-year-old woman last year while cleaning his gun was sentenced Friday to eight years and three months ...

A demoted Multnomah County employee has filed a civil rights suit against the county and her former bosses alleging they retaliated against her for complaining about unsafe conditions caused by large ...

Plaintiffs claim oil and gas companies nnew years ago that carbon emissions would lead to climate-related disasters.

• Another way to beat the heat: the Mercury's monthlong Summer of Slushies. Every year we get everyone into slushie mode. Then in August, we cruelly CUT OFF THE SLUSH. (Most of the bars still offer ...

“He was an extraordinary idealist who gave his life to social change wherever it was needed,” says novelist Walt Curtis, ...

For the first time in living memory, Portland in effect has two viable political parties—and the second one isn’t the ...

The state’s Department of Justice calls a suit alleging Gov. Tina Kotek improperly withheld records relating to the state’s ...

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield on Thursday said he had no role in the Department of Justice hiring two out-of-state law ...

The Portland Police Bureau executed a warrant in the Multnomah Neighborhood on Wednesday, July 16, 2025, leading to the ...