Portland News

TriMet's MAX platform videos: Rosie Sizer's news conference: Portland Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman overruled the police chief for the second time in recent months, ordering Officer Chris Humphreys be placed on paid leave as police investigate his firing of a beanbag shotgun at a 12-year-old girl.

Portland Police acted on a tip and found the body of 57 year old Nancy Bergeson in her home on Southwest Hamilton Street.

According to a new report, Gresham is the most dangerous city in Oregon. Gresham Police Chief Craig Junginger says incorrectly categorized police reports, as well as the city's higher-than-usual homicide rate for 2008, are to blame.

Lights on inside a home surrounded by crime scene tape in Southwest Portland where a 57-year-old woman was found dead Tuesday.

The rivers of the Pacific Northwest are almost always in view from the major highways that take us from one city to another.

A bicyclist was seriously injured in Westmoreland on October 24th, when a vehicle quickly turned in front of the rider.

Construction on a 16,000-square-foot station for Hillsboro Fire & Rescue that will serve as the training center is expected to start soon, and should be completed by the summer of 2010.

November 24, 2009, 12:59PM The Portland Farmers Market has decided to close the Thursday Ecotrust Market at 721 N.W. 9th Ave.

Portland's police union planned a rally on Tuesday starting at 9:45 a.m. to support Officer Christopher Humphreys -- and in protest of Chief Rosie Sizer and Commissioner Dan Saltzman.

Show up to a workshop and let the City know what you think is important. If you don't, they'll listen to someone else.

A landmark Portland restaurant is making a comeback. Forty-six years after Bob Farrell opened his original Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour on West Burnside Street, Farrell said he is going to once again open a restaurant in Portland.

If you plan to embark on a culinary tour of Portland, Oregon, you'll enjoy a number of restaurants, cafes and other eating venues to satisfy your appetite.

In full body paint, a PETA member resembling the world will represent Mother Earth while holding a poster reading, "'Gore Loves Meat More Than Me'--Mother Earth," outside the former vice president's book-signing event on Wednesday.

A weekend getaway to the City of Roses - or, shall we say, the City of Beer - is a great way to erase the mid-November blahs.

SOUTHERN OREGONIANS ARE HEADING TO PORTLAND DEC. 5 TO JOIN THE CONVERGENCE Vans & Autos will car-pool up and back the same day.

As promised , this " near-naked Mother Earth " was outside Al Gore 's talk in Portland last night, asking the former vice president to bolster his green beliefs by going vegetarian.

Federal regulators have canceled a public hearing designed to air their concerns about the adequacy of treatment at Portland's main wastewater treatment plant, saying the city is working to submit revisions that may address the problems.

Rick Gustafson, the Portland Streetcar operations director , says realigning track through the Oregon Sustainability Center will ease congestion.

Officer Humphreys has been placed on administrative leave and I have directed the Internal Affairs Division to conduct an immediate and full investigation into whether the use of force was justified under the totality of circumstances and whether the application of the beanbag at close range was consistent with the Bureau's training," 4:16 p.m.: ...

An Elavon Verifone credit card swipe machine will be used by the Salvation Army for cashless donations at four sites around the Portland area.