Portland News

The Oregon Transportation Commission has approved more than $2 million to help fund four Portland-area road projects, including a new metered Interstate 205 ramp lane in Northeast Portland and traffic improvements around Intel's Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro.

A 19-year-old man will be arraigned in Multnomah County Circuit Court Wednesday afternoon on allegations of attempted murder and assault in connection with a gang-related shooting last week.

The driver of the tractor-trailer truck that plunged an estimated 65 feet off the Interstate 84-to-Interstate 5 overpass this morning is in critical condition at an area hospital, Portland fire officials said.

Tonight, the summer barbecues return to the Roosevelt High School lawn. From 5-8 p.m., the school yard will have free food, music and games.

Last September, the nonprofit Blanchet House of Hospitality cut a blue ribbon to dedicate a $12.9 million, four-story homeless meal kitchen and transitional housing shelter in Old Town.

The park rangers must have been lying in wait. Out of the corner of my eye, I see them approaching.

It's 8:30 in the morning and I have to pee. This is a common problem, I know. For most people, it is easily solvable.

If you're thinking that Blue Lake Regional Park will be a good place to watch some fireworks on the 4th of July, you better make some other plans.

Walkers on a recent city-sponsored Ten Toe Express walk around the Portland Heights neighborhood descend the 152 steps from the heights into Goose Hollow.

Palisades Hudson Financial Group, a fee-only wealth management and financial planning firm, recently opened its Portland office at One World Trade Center, 121 SW Salmon Street.

At around 11:30 p.m., 59-year-old Mike Cooley was hit on his bicycle near North Interstate Avenue just north of Greeley Avenue, said Chris Johnson with Portland police.

Local FBI officials Tuesday unveiled two new ways for members of the public to report their suspicion of government fraud.

Hunger does not take the summer off, so the Portland Police Sunshine Division is launching its second annual "Hunger Doesn't take a Vacation" food drive.

Veloce Bicycles, 3202 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd. in Portland, is ramping up what it hopes will be an annual bike art contest.

Then, in 1962, he joined the Portland Gun Club. The former owner of Shooter's Emporium, 606 S.E. 162nd Ave., is the oldest living lifetime member of the gun club.

A drunken driver who crashed onto an Old Town Portland sidewalk and slammed into two young women -- killing one of them -- pleaded no contest Tuesday to second-degree manslaughter.

The fries were on the dry and cardboardy side Price: YouCanHasCheeseburger, $7; Burgermeister, $9; fries, $1.50/$4 With the opening of their brick and mortar store on 4/20, Brunch Box expanded out of Food Cart Alley on the corner of SW 5th and Stark, offering Portlanders another place to get their mitts on budget-friendly and hunger satiating grub, ... (more)

The Homebuilders Foundation last week broke ground on a $1.2 million renovation of the Portland Rescue Mission's facility on Northeast Wygant Street, according to the Portland Tribune.

DON'T BE SURPRISED if Mayor Charlie Hales keeps a solid hold on - for a few weeks longer - the city bureaus he grabbed from his colleagues in February as part of his new-look budget process.

The minds behind the bike-powered BrewCycle - which pedals party-minded folks through a brewery crawl in NW Portland - will open a proper 24-tap pub in the Pearl.