Beaverton News

Brett Matthew Johnson, 49, is accused of robbing a Wells Fargo Bank on Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway Thursday afternoon.

Beaverton police and the FBI are investigating a Wednesday morning robbery of a U S Bank branch on Southwest Hall Boulevard.

Police are trying to figure out who threw some smoke grenades into an SUV in a Winco parking lot and then took off while the vehicle burned.

Beaverton is looking to end more than two years of uncertainty within its planning department by hiring a new director.

A new Panda Express restaurant is rising in Tualatin. The Chinese food eatery with wood frame walls is at 17799 S.W. 65th Ave.

Firefighters spent 45 minutes this morning working to free the driver of a minivan that was crushed when it collided with a dump truck on Southwest Roy Rogers Road.

A hot air balloon made an emergency landing at the Kennedy Gardens in Washington County on Thursday morning.

A fire that started in a fork-lift forced the evacuation of a Beaverton warehouse this afternoon, fire officials said.

A 62-year-old woman drove her Subaru Forester backwards into a neighbor's Beaverton house this afternoon, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said.

Dong Wan Kim and his parents, Hee Soon Kim and Jae Juk Kim, have reopened an expanded Go Bu Gi Foods, which specializes in Korean and other Asian groceries.

In just over two weeks, an untended portion of the Kennedy Gardens in Beaverton was transformed into a lush garden - the beginnings of a soon-to-be thriving field of vegetables that will help feed the hungry in that community and beyond.

A hot air balloon participating in the AllState Festival of Balloons in Tigard made an emergency landing in a field near West Slope this morning.

The case: A Portland man used an aluminum baseball bat to assault a jogger in February.

BEAVERTON, Ore. An alleged drunk driver left a wide swath of damage and destruction near Beaverton early Tuesday morning, according to police and local residents.

A suspected drunk driver wreaked havoc and destroyed property in residential Beaverton Tuesday morning.

A 27-year-old woman accused of murder in the death of a pregnant woman in Oregon was arraigned on new charges Monday, but won't be tried for allegedly killing the 8-month-old unborn child.

As the Portland metro area moves forward on a landmark planning effort to designate where growth occurs during the next 50 years, Beaverton is considering some new possibilities -- in Multnomah County.

Had they met, would Heather Snively still be alive? That's the question Scott Gallagher asked his wife, Sarah, when the couple realized they'd been contacted by an expectant mother who died Friday in a made-for-TV killing.

The Beaverton School District is recruiting money-minded residents to apply for an opening on the audit committee.

Beaverton School District's math project team has recommended new middle and high school math materials for next year, opting for one series created specifically to meet Oregon standards and choosing to keep two math tracks in high school.