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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.

If you love Broadway musicals you will enjoy Northwest Senior Theatre's spring show, "Broadway Highlights," running May 15 to 18 at Alpenrose Opera House, 6149 SW Shattuck Road in Portland.

Recent emergency repairs on Northwest Cornelius Pass Road proves motorists are creating their own version of the Westside Bypass, the name given a proposed freeway project through the county that was killed by environmentalists and mass transit advocates in the 1990s.

St. John's Bridge: What's not to like about an elegant suspension bridge ? As the only suspension bridge in the Willamette Valley, with a beautiful park view, possessing gothic towers, this is a bridge that is a true work of art.

Graphic design and printing company Photocraft will relocate its roughly 100 employees from Northwest Portland to Beaverton by mid-June. At a little more than 71,000 square feet, the new location on Southwest Millikan Way near Southwest Hocken Avenue is a better fit than Photocraft's roughly 50,000-square-foot space on Northwest Yeon Avenue, said ... (more)

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.

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.

Coming off the 6th tee toward the putting green at Colwood Golf Course you can easily see the tower at PDX and even more easily hear the noise whenever a commercial airplane lands on the runway that is parallel to the 6th fairway.

The substance is still being analyzed at the Oregon State Public Health Lab , but preliminary results show it is not a biothreat or anything toxic, said Beth Anne Steele, an FBI spokeswoman in Portland .

David Mullens, representing developer Dennis Sackhoff, told Wednesday's gathering that the proposed development on the upper right would reflect historic architecture in the area, the way his Irvington development, on the lower left, does.

You've heard of eco-roofs and rooftop gardens, but the latest twist to hit Portland comes with a sweeter payout: rooftop honeybee hives.

Paramahansa Jagadish comes to Portland for the compassionate expansion of the human race and shares spiritual wisdom and multidimensional healing of the spirit, mind, body and emotions.

Responding to concerns about poor quality bike access on two narrow bridges on SW Barbur Blvd, the Oregon Department of Transportation has proposed a new flashing sign that would warn road users about the presence of bicycle traffic.

The work of Harry Smith, born in Portland, is being celebrated this weekend in advance of what would have been his 90th birthday.