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PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland police are not above the parking laws, even if they're hungry.

A three-alarm fire has heavily damaged Buckaroo Thermoseal, a long-established roofing and siding business in industrial Northeast Portland.

"Just a reaction" says Troy Gragg who said he knew something was wrong when he saw a honda civic speed out of an apartment complex in Gresham Monday night.

June's year-over-year job growth - 0.5 percent - in the Clark County-Portland metropolitan area was ahead of the U.S. average, according to a Monday report from the Oregon Employment Department.

SALEM - You've got to give Republican Mike Erickson credit on a few accounts. One is his willingness to put more than $3 million of his own money on the line to run for Congress this year and in 2006.

Anderson Krygier hired by District of Columbia Public Library to design signs for old and new buildings POSTED: 04:00 AM PDT Friday, July 18, 2008 BY SAM BENNETT When her work is finished, Elizabeth Anderson's ...

Smith was riding a Suzuki SVC motorcycle. The officer followed him onto I-5 where an Oregon State Patrol trooper joined the chase.

Inmate Jeffrey Christopher Lane, 29, escaped from state custody this morning. A prisoner serving a sentence for burglary escaped from a van today in Northeast Portland as he was being transported to the ...

A forest fire near Mount Adams has grown six-fold in size overnight, said officials at the Northwest Interagency Coordination Center.

SALEM, Ore. _ So long, Cuckoo's Nest.Oregon State Hospital, the mental institution where the 1975 movie 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' was filmed, is making way for a new complex.

When it comes to physician-assisted dying, Teresa Grove wears her politics on her refrigerator door - and on her chest.

Code 911 YAHOO! SK Police/Fire By Brynn Grimley Bgrimley@Kitsapsun.com Originally published 03:55 p.m., July 13, 2008 Updated 03:55 p.m., July 13, 2008 Gordon Janssen A 66-year-old South Kitsap man reported ...

A forest fire burning south of Mount Adams is creating a smoke plume visible from Yakima to Portland.

The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States and is charged with setting the nation's monetary policy.

SALEM, Ore. -- The mother of a 20-year-old Irish national shot to death by a police officer came to the U.S. looking for answers Friday and said her son's death appeared to be a case of "unreasonable and ...

Members of Portland's city council have unanimously endorsed plans for a new bridge over Interstate 5 - with some conditions.

Adams, who represented Portland for three years on the Columbia River Crossing Task Force, laid down some strong conditions during the start of the Portland City Council's deliberations on whether to support a ...

Portland writer Tim Harnet will sign copies of his novel, Trompe L'oeil from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Adventures Underground in the Uptown Shopping Center in Richland.

Two men were struck by lightning in the Portland suburb of Damascus on Sunday. Alice Lasher, a spokeswoman for the Boring Fire Department, said one of the men was seriously injured Sunday.

A weekend of fireworks, potential rain showers and plentiful blues music is ahead for many Portland residents opting to stay in town this Fourth of July.