Gresham News

The second of three public hearings on Multnomah County's proposed budget for next year will get underway this evening at 6 p.m. at the East County Building in Gresham.

Jerry Dean Guess, 69, of Gresham was arrested on Friday and booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on one count of Luring a Minor.

An elderly man could not get out of his burning home east of Gresham. A neighbor saw heavy smoke at the back of the house on SE 302nd Avenue near Division on Thursday night and called 911.

A Gresham driver died late Tuesday night after being hit by a speeding Mercedes that lost control and hit his car, police say.

One person is dead and at least one another person is being taken to the hospital after a two-vehicle crash in Gresham Tuesday.

A 40-year-old man is facing criminal charges after he allegedly broke into his ex-girlfriend's Gresham apartment and attacked her Monday.

This rendering by Cushing Civil Engineers shows what the emergency communications tower proposed by the Portland Bureau of Emergency Communications would look like on Gresham Butte.

Gresham's mayor is asking the mayor of Portland to withdraw a proposal for a 180-foot tall emergency communications tower on Gresham Butte.

Paul Brewer of Colliers International represented the tenant; Tony Reser , Tom Talbot and Scott Murphy of Kidder Mathews represented the property.

Along the banks of Gresham's Kelly Creek, volunteers from SOLVE and a local middle school teamed up to root out invasive species such as Himalayan blackberry and English ivy.

Mt. Hood Community College natural resources student Jade Martell, 19, a crew leader, and Josh Knowles, 16, a participant in the college's Youth Employability Support Services program, show one of the 108 Hogan cedar trees they recently helped plant.

The state of Oregon has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing child welfare workers of failing to protect a 5-year-old Gresham girl from dying a torturous death at the hands of her father and his girlfriend.

No? Well, study up, because the two are on their way to being designated the official twin minerals of the state.

Sara Edmond , 30, of Gresham, shown during an arraignment Tuesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court.

At night, when Lori Stegmann leaves her Rockwood office, she steadies her eye on the glowing, spiky art that towers over the MAX station.

When Lee Dayfield stumbled upon 10 acres of a forest in her Wilkes East neighborhood in 2008, she saw something others didn't. Dayfield had discovered a city-owned property called Nadaka , which had fallen into disrepair over the years.

Mayor Shane Bemis describes himself as a realist, but he says now is the time for him and fellow Gresham residents to give in a little to the dreamer within.