Joseph Taylor Letts, 28, was sentenced to 20 months in prison by Judge Kathie F. Steele for unauthorized use of a vehicle and possession of a stolen vehicle for a crime that he committed in December ...

Multnomah County is facing a $104 million shortfall in its budget for homeless services and has asked the state and Metro for ...

A man died after being hit by a MAX train in North Portland; details suggest he got caught between train cars. TriMet ...

A TriMet MAX train hit and killed someone at the Delta Park Transit Station on Wednesday night, according to the Multnomah ...

Rundown trailers streaked with graffiti that sit along a windy gravel road just outside Ontario in eastern Oregon are part of ...

Staff at the downtown Portland jail “provided emergency lifesaving care” to Dominique Ware at around 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, ...

Dominique Ware, 35, was taken to the hospital last Thursday after suffering some kind of medical emergency while in county ...

A section of NE Sandy Blvd. closed on Monday after a semi-truck got flipped on its side. According to the Multnomah County ...

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Authorities say a crash on Interstate 84 near Portland, Oregon, in whiteout conditions caused a more than 100-vehicle pileup.

Heavy rain is falling across Southern California, creating deluges of water and mud on roads at the bottom of hillsides left ...