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Police and firefighters in Portland have been overpaid $3.1 million in benefits since 1995 because of a mistake in calculating payments ordered by the Legislature.

The Portland Police Bureau is asking for help in finding four young men accused in a "wilding" incident last week in North Portland.

Like an indie Portland fairy godmother, Ivy Entrekin brings her Southern palate and armloads of vegetables to an airy South Tabor kitchen every Tuesday, ready to cook up a storm.

For 13 years Portland's public safety pension fund has overpaid pension benefits to 940 retirees and surviving beneficiaries, costing the fund an extra $3.1 million, fund supervisors announced Tuesday.

Five people were beaten and robbed by a roaming band of attackers in what police called an early morning wilding spree in North Portland -- and a reward was offered Tuesday for help nabbing four suspects on the ...

The Coast Guard and Portland Fire are reportedly responding this afternoon to an oil spill in the North Portland Harbor, upstream from the Island Cafe, at 250 N.E. Tomahawk Island Drive.

Evergreen Community Church likes to keep their gatherings small and interactive.

FORUMS * Gallop by StoneyGirl 08/18/2008 3:07 p.m. PT * stoner by bigmike45 08/18/2008 3:41 p.m. PT MULTIMEDIA VIDEO Woman charged in Portland prostitution-linked killing 82nd Avenue neighbors ask police for ...

There is war of sorts in Portland, Oregon, for the streets. Anarchists is a word I loosely use to describe the people behind the action front, because I know that they started it years ago.

Wow, a bunch of fun souls in SE Portland apparently put their heads together last winter when it was boring and gray and wet and said, HEY! Let's all have fairs and picnics and a PARADE on the same weekend, ...

A 18-year-old was briefly hospitalized after being shot in the leg this morning.

Every weekend, hundreds of hikers, bikers and dog walkers turn Leif Erikson Drive into a freeway of activity.

Portland police were looking for a man with dementia who left home without his medicine Wednesday.

A man stabbed and bleeding was still able to flag down a patrol car early Friday evening, according to Portland Police Bureau.

Homes for sale in the local market, like this one in Lake Oswego, are being hit by the national housing bust, according to the Regional Multiple Listing Service.

A man who flagged down police after being stabbed on Friday night has died from his injuries.

A Gresham man was held by two men while a third stabbed him in the chest, abdomen and arm during a fight late Thursday night, police said.

FORUMS MULTIMEDIA VIDEO Disbelief at deaths shifts to sadness Friends meet at makeshift shrine at Ainsworth School to remember Julia Reimann STEPHEN BEAVEN At first, 10-year-old Tristan Marsh didn't believe ...

After a series of complaints that would have shut down Peterson's convenience store in downtown Portland by Friday, the City Council approved Wednesday a "last chance" ordinance to keep the store open.

A heavy equipment operator escaped injury when a portion of a bridge collapsed as it was being demolished.