Beaverton News

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.

Beaverton police received an anonymous tip of 36-year-old Jason Michael Donaldson's whereabouts and found him about 10:30 a.m. in the 12000 block of Southwest Canyon Road , said Officer Mike Rowe, an agency spokesman.

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They can do some major housecleaning by showing two school board incumbents to the door -- the board chair and its soon-to-be senior member.

Southminster Presbyterian Church has announced that the Music, Art & Drama Camp for children ages 6 to 10 will begin on June 24.

Recruit firefighters for Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue will get to test their firefighting skills today starting at about 10 a.m. at a Cedar Mill home donated by Cedar Mill Bible Church.

Chelsea Pitcher, a graduate of Grant High School and Portland State University, has written a novel for young adults that deals with bullying and teen suicide.

One of the more intriguing features of Legacy Medical Group's newly opened Cornell clinic is a contraption called the "VertiMax," a system of straps and bungee-like cords that create resistance to, well, almost any part of the body one can freely move.

Ten of Oregon's 27 newly minted National Merit Scholars hail from a single zip code in suburban Washington County, 97229.