Damascus News

The Damascus-based business Nighthawk Alarm Services, located at 16175 S.E. Highway 224 in Damascus a few miles west of Estacada, turned their property into a holiday destination for local visitors this month.

The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office has closed Southeast 232nd Avenue north of Oregon 224 after a truck hauling paving equipment went over an embankment.

This vehicle does not have any police markings on the exterior of the vehicle. However, there is a siren and blue and red lights in the grill of the car that are not visible unless activated.

A water rescue team helped a man off the roof of his pickup truck Tuesday after he crashed into the Clackamas River.

DAMASCUS - A 57-year-old man whose pickup truck drifted off Oregon Highway 224, then crashed down an 80-foot embankment and into the Clackamas River has been plucked to safety by a Clackamas County water rescue team.

A drawing of a recently completed Miranda Home in a new subdivision in Clackamas.

A medical marijuana grow operation on Highway 224 in Damascus was raided by burglars--who came too late to score big, and ended up getting caught.

A robbery suspect was arrested after a chase that started at when a Clackamas County resident reported someone fired shots at a home where medical marijuana was being grown.

Clackamas County's commissioners indefinitely extended a 1-year-old pilot program Tuesday under which most county employees work four-day weeks with daily extended hours.

On Sept. 10, 2009, Tony was unexpectedly taken from us. He was the beloved son of Terry and Willi Partipilo of Bend.

The Portland, Oregon area is well known for preserving agricultural land separate from urban areas.

Circulating rumors about a peeping Tom in a neighborhood in the 2400 block of Bohna Park Road, helped alert a Damascus mother in the early hours Thursday morning, July 9. Mother's intuition kicked in at 2 a.m. She got out of bed, walked to her 14-year-old daughter's bedroom and saw Paul Cameron Klick, 43, of Damascus, peering in through the window.

A mother's intution led to the arrest of a "peeping tom" in Dasmascus early Thursday morning.

Authorities are trying to link a man to a Damascus burglary that occurred early Thursday in which the criminal struggled to keep up his pants and ended up falling over a curb during his escape.