Multnomah County News

A 49-year-old man was arrested Thursday afternoon in connection with the robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank in Raleigh Hills.

The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners approved a settlement of nearly $1 million to the family of James Chasse on Thursday.

A A A' The parents of a 3-year-old boy who died after an Oregon doctor operated on him have agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit for $200,000. The parents of Ian McClellan contended Dr.

Starting today, backyard, agricultural and open burning is forbidden in most East Multnomah County cities.

Multnomah County Sheriff Bob Skipper failed a course aimed at re-certifying him as police officer in the State of Oregon.

The Oregon City Farmers Market and New Seasons are teaming up this summer to make fresh foods more accessible to Oregon Trail Card holders.

Multnomah County is poised to pay its largest legal settlement, $925,000, to end its part in the federal civil rights lawsuit brought two and a half years ago by the family of James P. Chasse Jr.

A section of Highway 43 in Multnomah County was closed for four hours Thursday evening after a man was struck and killed while crossing the highway just south of the Sellwood Bridge.

PORTLAND, Ore. - The husband of a woman fatally shot while sleeping, allegedly by her 93-year-old father, left a courthouse this week feeling that justice wasn't served.

Multnomah County Sheriff's Office deputies confiscated nearly five pounds of methamphetamine last night from a suspected drug dealer in Washington County.

A Damascus man is behind bars and stands accused of being the bumbling burglar whose bare backside was caught on video during a break-in at a local pub.

Portland Police Chief Rosie Sizer on Monday pushed for the ability to give polygraph tests to police applicants as a grand jury returned an 84-count indictment against a Portland officer accused of placing sexually-harassing calls to women and teenage girls.

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

As the Portland metro area moves forward on a landmark planning effort to designate where growth occurs during the next 50 years, Beaverton is considering some new possibilities -- in Multnomah County.

Mickalecia Crumble, 21, a community service worker, helps clear overgrown land in Troutdale that was once part of the Multnomah County Poor Farm.

A man who was a witness in the case against a woman accused of killing and dismembering her husband shot and killed himself last week, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.

The jury heard a 73-year-old woman dying of cancer say on tape that she'd been tricked.

Randy Ray Richardson has had one brush with the law after another since resigning from the Multnomah County district attorney's office nine years ago.

A body has been pulled from the Willamette River in North Portland, and detectives are trying to identify it.

The first town hall meeting on Portland and Multnomah County's proposed climate action plan is scheduled for tonight, with a focus on the plan's effect on business.