The population of Multnomah County, the dense urban core of the Portland metro, rose a hair last year, even as it remained lower than in 2020. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates Multnomah County’s ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The district attorneys for Oregon's two most populous counties are pushing for changes they say will immediately help address the worsening crisis of defendants going ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon lawmakers are under increasing pressure to course-correct on the state's long-term plan to reform public defense, as the problem of indigent criminal defendants going ...

Labor Day 2020 wildfire toll rises for the Portland-based Berkshire Hathaway utility. A Multnomah County jury on Monday hit PacifiCorp with about $48 million in new damages in an ongoing wildfire ...

For the first time in a long time, Karl Ely figured he had pretty much everything he needed. Ely moved to Portland from Philadelphia several decades ago. The aspiring artist worked as a line cook ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Eight years after the Eagle Creek Fire scorched nearly 50,000 acres in the Columbia River Gorge, a new report shows the fire helped pave the way for hundreds of dangerous ...

Oregon lawmakers on Tuesday tweaked a bill intended to increase fire mitigation to ensure it does not also offer utilities immunity from liability in lawsuits for wildfires ignited by power lines. The ...

We asked the biggest recipients of county dollars how they feel about disclosing their meetings with public officials.

A new proposal would diminish the chair’s unilateral authority to control the board agenda, declare a public meeting over.

Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson and Commissioner Julia Brim-Edwards are introducing a proposal to “kick-start” ...

The program aims to continue expansion with the goal of providing all children age three to four with free preschool by 2030.