The long-standing executive rule recently employed by Chair Jessica Vega Pederson violates the county charter, is ’undemocratic and unjust,’ lawyers write.

“That’s remarkable,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum. “It’s not every day you have the head of an agency that would get involved."

The company is renovating its permanent downtown Portland store across the street.

Spoke & Word Books is a bookstore that offers a community safe space for all in Milwaukie.

The Oregon State Bar found “no sufficient basis” to advance the complaint through the organization’s disciplinary process.

Authorities teaming up to focus on stolen car investigations.

He was injured by an intoxicated relative, according to court records.

The nurses’ union listed a litany of complaints connected to poor working conditions at the county’s jails.

Nearly 50% of public school students in Oregon now attend districts that have banned licensed handgun owners from bringing their weapons onto school property.

"This is not going to go good for me,” Travis Jay Grygla, 43, a registered sex offender, said before he slid into the driver's seat and sped off, according to a federal agent.

Portland voters will be asked in May to renew a long-standing property tax levy, which district leaders say would pay to retain 660 teachers.

When Portland International Airport's new terminal opens later this year, visitors will be able to take real airport carpet selfies again.

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