Lucille McNamara

PORTLAND, Ore. — Amendments to existing local government legislation on noise pollution codes and their enforcement in Portland are under the spotlight. Officials have decided to consolidate two existing noise enforcement codes into one,…

HILLSBORO, Ore. — Heriberto Tapia Naranjo (23) was taken into custody yesterday (Sunday) after a shooting incident the previous day at the Fred Meyer store parking lot at Century Boulevard and Tualatin Valley Highway in Hillsboro.…

Portland, Bend, and Eugene are the top three cities selected by entrepreneurs to launch a startup business in Oregon. The cities are ranked among the top 150 places in the U.S. to launch a new business in a poll of 3,024 respondents…

The Oregon House Judiciary Committee decided at the last minute to withdraw House Bill 2469 -  to allow judges to downgrade some misdemeanor offenses to violations – because it needed a majority vote of the committee to succeed. …

Thousands of potential jobs and billions of potential private investments have been lost to Oregon in the past five years and the state is poised to lose even more in the next five years, according to a survey by the University of Oregon.…

Oregon law enforcement officers may be able to collect DNA when arresting serious felony suspects if House Bill 3093 gets the final nod from lawmakers. Oregon will join 31 states that already employ DNA testing on felony suspects. …

A male prisoner who walked away from a work site in Salem yesterday (Friday) was quickly apprehended by Oregon State Police near Mission Street, a main traffic thoroughfare linking the central city to the coast. He Was Serving a…

Additional funding worth hundreds of millions of dollars to help low-income and homeless K-12 students recover from the impact of the pandemic has been stopped by the Department of Education (DOE), leading Oregon to join a lawsuit of 15…

PORTLAND, Ore. — A 39-year-old man who broke into a Portland apartment and assaulted a woman who was sleeping is facing multiple sexual assault charges. Michael Lynn Moore, Jr. was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on…

JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. — Rabid foxes in Josephine County have made eight known attacks on people and domestic animals in the last two months, according to a news release from Josephine County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO). Five Foxes…