Milwaukie News

The Hopp Racing team took the "Big Yellow Boat" to Milwaukie, Oregon June 13 & 14 to help a GREAT cause.

No one was home; the officer will send a warning letter. 12:05 p.m. - A caller reported that someone hit and damaged her 2005 Ford Taurus while it was parked in Milwaukie MarketPlace along the 10800 block of SE Oak Street.

Nearly a year after the Milwaukie City Council voted in favor of a light rail alignment that would go behind the North Industrial Area, Ardenwald residents have begun criticizing the plan, saying they weren't told a 36-foot-tall rail line would coast along the western edge of their neighborhood.

A Milwaukie man who has had run-ins with police in the past was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon after he fired pepper spray at officers.

Mosaic artists Lynn Adamo, in the studio at her Hillsboro home, is co-curating the exhibit at the Lake Oswego festival.

They came by ones and twos Friday, quietly slipping into the pews at New Hope Community Church.

Melissa Richmond, organic gardening coordinator at Elite Care-Oatfield Estates, invites Gay, a resident, to taste a crisp, leafy lettuce newly picked from the facility's garden.

To watch Dan Minh Tran at work is to see fingers fly. The 23-year-old, who works and takes classes at Milwaukie's Edwards Center, can take a piece of origami paper and a popsicle stick and with dexterous digits turn it into a leaping frog, a flying crane or a spiky lily.

The Milwaukie Farmer's Market has much to celebrate as the weekly Sunday event brings a sense of community to the vacant downtown streets.

An officer checked and advised the railroad. 10:24 a.m. - A caller reported that railroad arms were down for 20 minutes and are now malfunctioning at the crossing at SE Harmony Road and SE Railroad Avenue.

Intensive efforts are now cranking up to identify mosquitoes known to carry and transmit West Nile virus.

Milwaukie High School students, from left, Camila Lambert, 15, Edson Barrera, 17, Clarissa Patubo, 16, and Anna Demidovich, 16, check on the health of Vice Principal Michael Ralls, center, during a recent visit to Cleveland High School's school-based health center.

This rendering shows what a Willamette River bridge for a Portland-Milwaukie light rail line could look like.

New legislation allows counties to raise vehicle registration fees without approval from local jurisdictions.

12:07 p.m. - Police responded to a theft along the 800 block of 7th Street. 4:51 p.m. - Police responded to a theft along the 900 block of Abernethy Road.

North Clackamas Parks and Recreation District is open to naming a new Happy Valley Park after a paid sponsor.

Beginning this week, Medicaid and Food Stamps programs for seniors and people with disabilities will be moving to local offices in the county.

Jo Elizabeth "Libby" Spencer didn't run for the Gladstone School board, but she won anyway.

The family of a woman accused of aggravated murder in the death of her 4-year-old son told a judge at a custody hearing for an older child last year they were concerned she was drinking too much.

The old bank building at Main and Monroe streets that sparked the code controversy.