Multnomah News

Work is underway at the site of the former Hillsdale Terrace to prep for the construction of 122 units of affordable housing beginning this August.

Multnomah Village mainstay Sweets Etc. is taking its show on the road with one new location already open and more on the horizon.

With Labor Day this weekend, there are many outing activities to choose from in the Portland and surrounding areas.

Portland, OREGON--April 28, 2012--Alejandro Mendez Arenales puts on the 80-pound costume he will wear while leading the Comparsa Orgullo Morelense Cemiac heritage group in the Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade.

Canary was nominated for his more than 12 years of service to the Community Development Law Center and its clients in property tax appeals and research projects.

The Oregon Dairy Farmers Association is calling for tighter restrictions on the sale of unpasteurized milk following an E. coli outbreak that sickened nearly 20 people last month.

Nate Schroder talks with billing specialist Melissa Dalton at Guardian Pharmacy in St.

Scott Schaeffer and Jim Stanley stand on a part of their nursery farm they sold to the East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District, which plans to turn the acreage into an incubator for would-be farmers.

Preston Pulliams will step down next summer as president of Portland Community College.

Results Cheatsheet Ellen Rosenblum with 68 percent of vote wins outright in the Attorney General's race Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith face runoff in November.

Lamar Friesen, a mail carrier in the Rockcreek area north of U.S. 26, collected bags of food donations along his route Saturday during the 20th annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive.

Rod Underhill, seen here attending a gang task force meeting in April, has highlighted three areas of focus: gangs, family violence and crime-victims' rights.

Safeway customers and employees in Oregon and Southwest Washington raised $500,000 in one month for breast cancer awareness, treatment and research at Providence Cancer Center .

A local clinic chain will offer free appointments at one location, one night per month starting this Thursday.

Terry Franceschi, who lives in a working-class neighborhood just east of Interstate 205, has a lawn sign out front promoting Rep.

Corporate chaplain Nate Schroder, right, meets with Mark Boe, president and owner of Guardian Pharmacy, April 24 in St.

Oregon voters have a rare opportunity to influence the state's highest court as three lawyers vie for one seat on the Supreme Court.

Multnomah public defender Keith Rogers stands to address the crowd gathered for the first session of the Bud Clark Commons Community Court.

PORTLAND Five foreign suspects face federal drug charges stemming from the heroin overdose death of a woman in Keizer earlier this month.

Regence BlueCross BlueShield is cutting its provider network of doctors and hospitals for 20,000 individual members in the Portland area, meaning they potentially need to change physicians, switch insurers, or pay more for care.