Portland News

Attention Portlanders, Hack Across America is coming to PDX! Come one and all for a geeky good time with Darren & Hak5 Monkey.

In from Ireland, Seamus Begley and Oisin Mac Diarmada live in concert this Friday, May 24, 2013, 9:00pm at the reopening of ASP 1036 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR.

Jory Olson signed up for the Fred Meyer/QFC loyalty card program and dutifully handed the card over to his neighborhood Shell station attendant whenever he'd accrued enough points for a gas discount .

Gov. John Kitzhaber, talking with and fellow Democratic leaders House Speaker Tina Kotek and Senate President Peter Courtney, after the May revenue forecast has tried to push forward budget discussions.

After hearing gunshots near Northwest Fourth Avenue and Northwest Everett Street around 2:15 a.m. Sunday, officers found evidence of gunfire but no people connected to the event, according to the Portland Police Bureau .

The Portland State University School of Business Administration received $8 million from an anonymous MBA alumnus and his wife .

SE Powell Boulevard between 13th and 21st avenues reopened Sunday morning, May 19, a day ahead of schedule.

Most Portlanders are familiar with Sunday Parkways, the six-year-old city tradition of shutting down auto traffic in a neighborhood so residents can play in the streets on foot, by bike and other active means.

The most recent photograph of missing Ivanice "Ivy" Harris was taken on the beach in Hawaii, her sister Holley Watson said.

Portland filmmaker Alissa Nicole Creamer with one of the stars of her documentary, Romeo , his siblings Maezinha and Daniel, and mom, Ana.

Allen Say, the great children's book author and illustrator, rarely does public events.

Two decades ago, the city of Portland's Yellow Bike Project put hundreds of canary-colored two-wheelers on the streets for public use.

That story, which is what is actually going on, is one of brutal Israeli repression of a largely defenseless population and Israeli denial of the most basic of human rights.

Twenty-one years ago, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry relocated from bustling Washington Park to a gritty, hard-to-reach pocket of Portland's inner-eastside industrial area.

Growing up, that statement would have sent a shiver through my cerebral cortex. It usually meant my Auntie Pat had arrived at the front door in a cloud of cigarette smoke, her Lime Jell-O salad and three hours of slides from a recent trip to Texas' National Museum of Funeral History in tow.

Monkey Island and The Cave creator Ron Gilbert has issued a trailer for his upcoming iOS match-three puzzler Scurvy Scallywags in The Voyage to Discover the Ultimate Sea Shanty: A Musical Match-3 Pirate RPG .

In a report released this morning, the Portland Bureau of Transportation says bicycle traffic counts for 2012 were up 3.3 percent over 2011 levels .

Some things get better with age, fine wine and cheese for instance. Helen Larsen, at 95, is living proof that we humans could have our best years ahead of us! Larsen was born on April 25, 1918, in a three room cabin her parents had homesteaded in Crook County, Wyoming.

Police say a man and women were kidnapped at knife point yesterday. At approximately 2:30 a.m., May 15 2013, North Precinct officers responded to the area of Northeast Martin Luther King Jr.

Two Lakeridge High School students and a Lakeridge teacher nabbed some of the top spots in the Lake Oswego Women's Club Lake Run events on Saturday.