Portland News

A suspect was shot and killed at his home yesterday morning in the Pearl District Neighborhood by a Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officer from the Special Emergency Reaction Team (SERT). Mayor Keith Wilson was Briefed at the Scene…

A 29-year-old Portland mother, whose five-year-old daughter died in a car accident, admitted to investigators that she had smoked marijuana and consumed a shot of tequila and two malt liquors before driving. She Will Never Be…

PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal court judge granted a temporary restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after finding excessive force was used outside of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South…

Portland police officers yesterday arrested a 71-year-old man suspected of shooting and seriously injuring a male victim on a MAX light rail train in the Hazelwood Neighborhood. The incident occurred at 1.03 a.m. on a train that was…

A 68-year-old Portland man, who was frightened that he would become homeless, hid his mother’s body in the kitchen freezer so that he could keep collecting her Social Security checks. Portland police found the body of the 104-year-old…

PORTLAND, Ore. — Forty-one-year-old Eric F. Oelkers of Portland has been identified and arrested as the shooter of two local police officers on January 19. Oelkers is charged with two counts of first-degree attempted murder, two counts…

Despite instructing its nursing staff to “cease and desist” from complaining that ICE agents are “roaming” the corridors of Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, the hospital claims in a statement that the health and safety of its…

Ryan Tong, a former Orangetheory Fitness coach, pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges for diverting at least $24,000 in charitable donations for his personal use in the Multnomah County Circuit Court yesterday. …

A Vietnamese man, living illegally in Oregon, is one of five of the several ‘worst of the worst’ criminals listed on the latest U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) website after being highlighted by U.S. Immigration and Customs…

PORTLAND, Ore. — A proposal to slash $50 million from the Portland Public Schools’ (PPS) budget could result in 288 jobs lost. Tidings Data Snapshot PPS budget gap / planned reductions 2026 27 $50M Projected budget gap…