Multnomah News

Patrick Stupfel began skipping school in fourth grade, when his divorced parents were working long hours and he was forced to take the bus to school.

These are some of the conclusions to be drawn from a recent analysis of economic trends in the Portland metropolitan area conducted by Christian Kaylor, a work force analyst with the Oregon Employment Department.

Portland Parks & Recreation will meet with Buckman neighborhood residents Thursday night to discuss an uptick in crime at Colonel Summers Park.

Daryn Strub celebrates his first-place finish on the vault at the Men's Gymnastics Junior Olympic National Championships with his coach, Dale Bullivant.

Less than two days after two Portland police officers fatally shot a U.S. army veteran who ambushed them atop a city parking garage, homicide detectives could study a three-dimensional reconstruction of the crime scene from their desks.

May 09--TriMet announced its bus, rail and part-time operators of the year on Thursday.

William Cahill practices on the Sylvan Archers range in Sherwood. Targets are set up at 5 or 10 yard increments from 10 to 100 yards.

Spring has sprung in the state of Oregon. Leaves are back on the trees, the weather has finally become hospitable, and in that uniquely local occurrence, ballots have dropped.

Lecester "Lee" Shakier sits in his motorized wheelchair beside the sliding door in his ground-floor Gresham apartment.

Portland's newly hatched Education Urban Renewal Area may face new restrictions on spending money for - of all things - education.

Jerry Fetcher reopens the New Old Lompoc Tavern on May 16 at its new home, 1620 N.W. 23rd Ave.

It was a simple question. "Where is my grandmother's plaque?" Keffer Jensen asked when joining the Portland Women's Forum organization last fall.

When two masked "gunmen" firing blank ammunition and screaming, "Bang, bang! You're dead!" burst into a gathering of 15 schoolteachers here April 26, they got nationwide headlines.

In lieu of the contentious fluoridation vote in Portland this month, the KATU Problem Solvers continue to ask the question: is fluoridation working right now? To help answer that question, I dug up a little-known study that evaluates this question right here in the Portland metro area.

Worksystems, Inc. is a non-profit agency that accelerates economic growth in the City of Portland, Multnomah and Washington counties by pursuing and investing resources to improve the quality of the workforce.

Surveillance video captures two people -- Frances Davenport and Jake Thompson -- accused of stealing baby formula from Safeways and Albertsons supermarkets in Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas and Marion counties, plus over the border in Washington.

As the 10th anniversary of the Kendra James homicide approaches on May 5, the community plans to gather in a memorial vigil .

By Nicole Johnson and Jose Lopez Delgado The Oregonian editorial "Delaying a painful decision" , about the city of Portland and TriMet preparing to help Portland Public Schools extend the Youth Pass transit program, misses the point of the program.

For Dr. Dan Leonhardt, a child abuse pediatrician with CARES Northwest, Friday was a busy day.

The view across the Willamette River to downtown Portland on a clear spring day in 2009.