Beaverton News

Get up close and personal with an alpaca this weekend at the Alpaca Open Barn, co-hosted by Easy Go Farm of HIllsboro and Alpacas of Oregon at their Sherwood location.

More than 60 community members showed up at a South Cooper Mountain open house Thursday night to ask questions and voice concerns on the area's development.

Explore the rural splendor of Western Oregon This is a beautiful bicycle fundraising tour being held on Saturday, August 24, 2013, from Papa's Pizza Parlor located at 15700 Blueridge Drive in Beaverton, Oregon to Stub Stewart State Park in Buxton, with an option to explore Vernonia and return.

Just as in music and movies, the world of board games includes plenty of titles beyond the obvious, mid-20th century selections most everybody of a certain age remembers: Monopoly.

A permanent memorial is taking shape in Southwest Beaverton to remember a beloved Tigard soldier killed in action in Afghanistan last August .

"Is this really marked right?" a customer asked on a recent weekday afternoon, as jazz played softly in the background.

With an $11 million loan through U.S. Bank it just announced, the C.E. John Company is moving full steam ahead on an expansion of the Cedar Hills Crossing shopping center, with two buildings housing three new tenants planned to be ready by this fall.

Beaverton plans to raise property taxes and water charges in the fiscal year beginning July 1, as the city plans for increased healthcare costs and equipment upgrades.

Note: Because of the extremely narrow vote margin in this race as of Thursday morning, this story will be amended with updated commentary from candidates Greg Cody and Jerry Jones Jr.

The Oregon Transportation Commission voted last week to designate the city's Canyon Road Safety and Complete Corridor project one of eight statewide priority projects for the this year's round of Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER V, grants.

Barbara Vybiralova opened a commercial kitchen in Beaverton with help from her partner, Mirek Fejfar.

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)

Officials booked "appointments" at a decoy rental home, in the 5200 block of Southwest Barclay Court , with the movers, who were previously identified as unlicensed, said Dave Thompson, ODOT spokesman.

Upscale grocer Market of Choice will anchor Timberland Town Center, a new retail development in Beaverton's fast-growing Cedar Mill area.

Bryan Dolores-Cruz, who turned 8 on Tuesday, fulfilled his wish of becoming 'Ben 10,' his cartoon hero, and vanquishing aliens from Earth during a laser tag party at the Laserport, 6540 S.W. Fallbrook Place, in Beaverton.

A 33-year-old Beaverton man was arrested Monday night after he discharged his gun and sent a bullet through his home and into his neighbor's residence, according to the Beaverton Police Department .

A Beaverton maintenance crew resurfaces pavement on Southwest 5th Street near Southwest Griffith Drive on Monday, May 13.

The Beaverton City Council will consider a slew of spending and borrowing measures tonight to pay for the city government to move to the Round at an estimated cost of $5.7 million.

Beaverton police have accused a man of animal abuse after he reportedly punched and kicked his small dog Friday evening, the department said.

Stella Verdouw, 16, a student at the Portland Festival Ballet School in Beaverton, has decided to study with the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam.