Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega-Peterson declared an emergency on Tuesday, announcing that three emergency shelters will open starting at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Two Multnomah County Sheriff’s deputies who tried to cover up their failure to make mandatory jail rounds have been sentenced to probation in separate cases. In both of them an inmate under their ...

James Brauckmiller was sentenced to six months bench probation. He must surrender his police certification and resign from the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.

The Portland resident was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on active warrants from Washington.

The suspect accused of barricading himself inside a St. Johns home for more than 10 hours during a police standoff in ...

The Portland Police Bureau said officers are on the scene negotiating with a suspect after he allegedly fired shots and then ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Kevin Dahlgren is back in Multnomah County Jail after pleading guilty Monday to charges of first ...

Multnomah County is in talks to fund an additional 100 shelter beds ... opened Bybee Lakes Hope Center inside North Portland’s former but never-used Wapato Jail in October 2020. Since then, 3,350 ...

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

Videos depicting two men’s final moments, and the response by guards, raise alarms at the embattled jail where at least 24 ...

A 48-year-old Oregon man was arrested and booked into the Multnomah County Jail on Jan. 21 for an outstanding warrant for 20 counts of child sex abuse allegedly committed in 2022.