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

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

The child, then 9, suffered a fractured skull and the sitter a crushed pelvis. The city replaced hundreds of its lampposts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the new charges are three counts of bias crime in the first-degree. Prosecutors allege Szwarz targeted three non-white neighbors in his building, one of whom spoke to KATU about his family's ...

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