Oregon City News

Police and firefighters are on the scene of a fire southwest of Oregon City punctuated by explosions that blew a man out of his apartment.

FEB. 6, 2012-- The Oregon City Masonic Lodge, built in 1907, is for sale. This is the original rawhide case used by wagon train leader Joel Palmer to transport the lodge charter to Oregon.

Kevin Mattias, a parent at Riverside Elementary School in Milwaukie, helps kindergartner Kyron Cushman while Tyler Creswick and MattiasaA A son, Keenan, work on their own projects.

A dock normally anchored near the base of Willamette Falls broke free in high water and ended up four miles downstream.

Public input is sought for the 39-acre West Linn Blue Heron property. A new interactive website called Imagine Willamette was set up to encourage discussions about the property located off Volpp Street in the Willamette neighborhood.

Executive Director Kristi Hoch tours the donated lab and X-ray equipment at the new Founders Clinic in Oregon City.

While Oregon City's largest surviving museum goes without an executive director, volunteers are keeping exhibits open and raising money for the nonprofit Clackamas County Historical Society.

The train conductor said the man was walking along the track and there was no way to avoid hitting him.

The Al-Andalus Ensemble, led by oudist Tarik Banzi, merges classical, jazz and contemporary music with musical traditions from the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.

CLACKAMAS Goddard Community Games: Families invited to participate in fun-filled and hands-on activities designed to demonstrate the transformative power of play and how it can foster a lifetime of curiosity and discovery.

The Local Advisory Committee for the Clackamas Subbasin Agricultural Water Quality Management Area will meet twice.

Investigators say the fire started in this walled-in recess above a wood stove, where heat from repeated fires dried out the wood, making it easy to ignite.

A 60-foot tree came crashing down on a house Monday evening, leaving the homeowner with a mess in clean-up and repair.

Hosted by the Oregon City Chamber of Commerce Friday, February 17, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm, Abernethy Center, 606 15th Street, Oregon City Tickets: $20. Meat/Gluten Free and Vegetarian meal selections available.

Happy Tuesday, Clackamas County. Here's some of the area's latest headlines to go with that healthy dose of sunshine you're getting this morning: Mt.

Handiwork Group: Senior citizens socialize while producing craft projects. Weekly 10 a.m. Tue.

The Museum of the Oregon Territory, 211 Tumwater Drive, opens for the 2012 season on Saturday, February 11, 2012 with an Art Show, Crab Fest and the opening of a new exhibit "A Man and His Camera, The Photography of Ralph Eddy." Eddy, born in 1889 in Salamanca, New York, relocated to Oregon with his parents in 1909.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jon Lyman of Oregon City, a 21-year-old mortarman with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, hands a piece of candy to an Afghan child during a security patrol.

Lee Fletcher, 70, was one of an estimated 100 car owners in Lake Oswego and Southwest Portland who had their vehicle vandalized between Thursday night and Friday morning.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement say they are deporting a 27-year-old Mexican national who was involved in drug-fueled orgy that ended with the strangling death of a teenager in Oregon City five years ago.