Milwaukie News

Fireworks may have caused a two-alarm fire at an Oak Grove home Sunday night, according to a spokesman from Clackamas Fire District #1. At about 11:20 p.m. Sunday, police responded to a caller who was reporting "lots of smoke and flames coming from the attached garage of a large home," said Steve McAdoo, Clackamas Fire spokesman.

Two men involved in the strangulation death of a Texas teen in the summer of 2007 in a Milwaukie apartment are being sentenced Tuesday in Clackamas County circuit court.

Damage was estimated at $300. 8:42 a.m. - A contractor working along the 12100 block of SE 21st Avenue found a clip of live ammunition lying the grass.

Investigators believe a two-alarm fire that heavily damaged a Milwaukie family's home Sunday night was likely caused by someone else's fireworks.

Attorney General Kroger praises the Legislature for approving drug treatment, environmental crimes and civil rights initiatives Attorney General John Kroger announced that last night the Legislature approved three of his highest priorities: a commission to reform and improve Oregon's drug treatment and prevention programs and the creation of ...

The Hopp Racing team took the "Big Yellow Boat" to Milwaukie, Oregon June 13 & 14 to help a GREAT cause.

No one was home; the officer will send a warning letter. 12:05 p.m. - A caller reported that someone hit and damaged her 2005 Ford Taurus while it was parked in Milwaukie MarketPlace along the 10800 block of SE Oak Street.

Nearly a year after the Milwaukie City Council voted in favor of a light rail alignment that would go behind the North Industrial Area, Ardenwald residents have begun criticizing the plan, saying they weren't told a 36-foot-tall rail line would coast along the western edge of their neighborhood.

A Milwaukie man who has had run-ins with police in the past was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon after he fired pepper spray at officers.

Mosaic artists Lynn Adamo, in the studio at her Hillsboro home, is co-curating the exhibit at the Lake Oswego festival.

They came by ones and twos Friday, quietly slipping into the pews at New Hope Community Church.

Melissa Richmond, organic gardening coordinator at Elite Care-Oatfield Estates, invites Gay, a resident, to taste a crisp, leafy lettuce newly picked from the facility's garden.

To watch Dan Minh Tran at work is to see fingers fly. The 23-year-old, who works and takes classes at Milwaukie's Edwards Center, can take a piece of origami paper and a popsicle stick and with dexterous digits turn it into a leaping frog, a flying crane or a spiky lily.

The Milwaukie Farmer's Market has much to celebrate as the weekly Sunday event brings a sense of community to the vacant downtown streets.

An officer checked and advised the railroad. 10:24 a.m. - A caller reported that railroad arms were down for 20 minutes and are now malfunctioning at the crossing at SE Harmony Road and SE Railroad Avenue.

Intensive efforts are now cranking up to identify mosquitoes known to carry and transmit West Nile virus.

Milwaukie High School students, from left, Camila Lambert, 15, Edson Barrera, 17, Clarissa Patubo, 16, and Anna Demidovich, 16, check on the health of Vice Principal Michael Ralls, center, during a recent visit to Cleveland High School's school-based health center.

This rendering shows what a Willamette River bridge for a Portland-Milwaukie light rail line could look like.

New legislation allows counties to raise vehicle registration fees without approval from local jurisdictions.

12:07 p.m. - Police responded to a theft along the 800 block of 7th Street. 4:51 p.m. - Police responded to a theft along the 900 block of Abernethy Road.