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Portland police’s gang team is investigating a fight Monday night that injured a 26-year-old woman. Police were called at about 9 p.m. to the neighborhood at Northeast 10th Avenue and Alberta Street because someone had fired gunshots in the area. Officers found several shell casings, but no ...

The one-stop center for domestic violence services that opens Wednesday is only the latest in a series of offices supported by Portland and Multnomah County at a campus for family services in Southeast Portland. The Gateway Childrens Center is on Southeast Burnside at the 102nd Avenue MAX stop. It ...

When Sharon Cresalia was undergoing treatment for her second battle with breast cancer in 2006, she probably had a lot of ideas about how the disease might change her life. Getting her on a dragon boat — full of competitive female paddlers — wasn’t one of them. Four years later, ...

TriMet cut MAX and bus service on Sunday to help close a million shortfall on the fiscal year budget that took effect on July 1. The reductions affect all MAX lines and dozens of bus routes, including some that have been completely eliminated. According to the regional transit agencies, the ...

Beaverton’s School Board will ask voters this fall to eliminate local school committees because of the election costs. School district officials filed a measure Wednesday, Sept. 1, with the Washington County Elections Office to put the issue on the Nov. 2 general election ballot. If ...

Mayor Sam Adams showed up at the city’s long-running gang violence task force Friday morning, two weeks after outreach worker John Canda called him out for his not attending the regular meetings. “Thank you for coming; I apologize for the way it had to happen,” Canda told Adams ...

A public hearing next week could decide the fate of local TV. Public Access TV programs in Tualatin Valley may be significantly reduced if a recommendation to the Metropolitan Area Communications Commission (MACC) is put into action. Tualatin Valley Community Television may have to drastically ...

Although general election campaigns don’t traditionally kick into high gear until after Labor Day, some Democrats are worried that John Kitzhaber’s race for governor is not generating much excitement among rank-and-file party members. Because this is not a presidential election year, ...

Once or twice a month, and usually on a Monday morning, Robert Schultz does his best somewhere in Portland to help a few commuters feel a little bit better as they head to work. Usually, he succeeds. Schultz, a Southeast Portland resident, was laid off from his job as a construction inspector, but ...

A true milestone for the Lake Oswego Interceptor Sewer Project begins Sunday when work starts on lowering Oswego Lake. The lake must go down 24 feet for the city’s old sewer system to be taken out and a new one put in for this all-important project, and the LOIS staff has been on a rapid ...

In today’s business world, green is red hot. Companies and corporations big and small are quick to pledge their commitment to sustainability. And, while for some these promises may be attempts to improve their public image, for others they represent an environmental consciousness that goes ...

Mike and Penny Moreau know what the parents of Kyron Horman are going through. The Moreaus’ 21-year-old son, Tim, disappeared in Portland in January 1990. It took police eight years to solve the case. During that time, the Moreaus worked hard to keep local reporters interested in the story, ...

Lake Oswego and Dunthorpe residents recently formed a licenced nonprofit corporation to oppose the streetcar alternative to the Portland to Lake Oswego transit project. The group, Keep Lake Oswego Liveable, hired Portland political consultant and lobbyist Len Bergstein of Northwest Strategies, to ...

Linda Loeffler still doesn’t remember one word of what she said, or why she changed her mind. But she did change her mind, and she did speak up, and partly as a result, there will be one more place for homeless Portland families to stay overnight this fall and winter. Poets would have us ...

Oregon’s “Ban the bag” campaign is getting some support from the suburbs this month as the nonprofit Tualatin Riverkeepers lobbies to raise funds for the cause at its annual music festival. The Riverkeepers group, founded in 1993, hopes to raise ,000 to support efforts to get ...

Mayor Sam Adams’ plan to reduce gun violence is not just drawing objections from defenders of the Second Amendment – it also is generating opposition from the other end of the political spectrum, including civil rights advocates. On Aug. 20, Adams introduced his five-point proposal ...

Back in the heady days of the modern environmental movement in the early 1970s, Jim Huffman bicycled to work as a new Lewis & Clark law professor. Rather than see his faculty parking spot sit empty, Huffman and his students planted a vegetable garden atop the asphalt. The move made national TV ...

Will Pinckney’s mom might wear a uniform and badge to work, but he’s still a typical teenager. “If my mom didn’t care about me, I’d do stupid stuff, get in trouble,” says the 18-year-old Benson Polytechnic High School senior who plays running back, slot and free ...

The mini-Mt. St. Helens sculpture in the city of St. Helens, located in the Houlton Business District, was intended to draw visitors down to Olde Towne. What it’s drawn instead is ire from city councilors upset that it was installed without first going through the city’s Arts and ...

When Book Nook Manager Linda Arnett learned the building that has housed thousands of donated books for the last 18 years and has helped raise money for the Estacada Public Library Foundation would be sold, with changes in the lease imminent, she knew it was time to relocate. So she went to work ...