Portland's Veterans Day parade, organized by veteran Napoleon Hodgers after the pandemic ended its 46-year run, marches down MLK Boulevard on Wednesday at 10 a.m.
Crime
View MoreThe FBI is offering up to $25,000 for information in the unsolved March 2023 shooting that killed Eskender Tamra, 17, Babu Daudi, 19, and Patrick Johnson, 20, in their car on North Foss Avenue in Portland's Portsmouth neighborhood.
Crime
View MoreA 48-year-old man died at the Multnomah County Inverness Jail on Thursday, Aug. 20, after a medical event in his cell, marking the second in-custody death in seven days and the third at county facilities in 2026.
Crime
View MorePortland fire investigators have not determined what caused the Aug. 2 Centennial Mills fire, but two neighborhood theories have emerged — homeless squatters and possible anti-ICE arson — as a Friday, Aug. 14 demolition deadline nears and K9 teams have flagged likely human remains in the rubble.
Crime
View MoreA Multnomah County judge sentenced Wayne Conrad Thompson to life in prison with a 25-year minimum for the 2021 shooting death of Adrian Richardson aboard a TriMet bus on SE Hawthorne Boulevard; Thompson's defense plans to appeal.
Crime
View MorePortland Police Bureau announced three drug enforcement operations on Thursday, Aug. 6, that resulted in multiple arrests and seizures of fentanyl and methamphetamine, the latest in a series of major narcotics busts the bureau has conducted across the city in 2026.
Crime
View MoreMultnomah County Judge Melvin Oden-Orr sentenced Marquavious Dovontae Ware, 23, to concurrent prison terms totaling 75 months for second-degree manslaughter in the death of his son Jahorden Clay, whose autopsy revealed cigarette burns, broken ribs, and severe malnutrition. The case has renewed scrutiny of Oregon's Department of Human Services, which closed an abuse report two weeks before the boy died.
Local Government
Portland City Council is scheduled to take final votes Thursday on two major land-use packages: one requiring a 20% cut in fuel storage at the CEI Hub by 2036, and another overhauling Central City zoning to boost housing and fight downtown vacancy.
Local Government
APANO is installing free rooftop solar panels on homes near the 82nd Avenue corridor in Southeast Portland, funded by the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund, with projected annual utility savings of about $680 per household.
Local Government
About 800 City of Portland Professional Workers walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Monday, Nov. 9, after mediation with Mayor Keith Wilson's bargaining team collapsed Sunday, with picket lines scheduled at City Hall and the Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Local Government
Cottage clusters have become the most popular single-lot housing option in Portland, but a NW Portland project with units priced at $700,000 to $800,000 each raises questions about whether the housing type delivers on affordability goals.
Local Government
Portland's transportation bureau and the League of Oregon Cities warned that HB 4085, the state's proposed autonomous vehicle legislation, contained no cybersecurity requirements, even as a federal rule restricts connected vehicle technology linked to China and Russia.
Local Government
Portland City Council postponed a Nov. 4 vote on the COST ordinance, which would ban retailers from using shoppers' personal data to set prices, after Councilor Angelita Morillo flagged a loophole that could let stores use algorithms to offer different coupon values to different customers.
Local Government
A U.S. House Judiciary Committee report released days before Election Day accuses Oregon agencies of endangering communities through sanctuary policies. Portland Police, the Multnomah County DA and the Oregon Department of Corrections all pushed back, saying they follow state law.
Education
View MoreA Portland State University research team secured a two-year, $2 million grant to build benchmarks measuring whether AI systems can guide middle and high school students through math problems without just handing them the answer.
Education
View MoreNew census data shows Portland's under-5 population has dropped by more than a third since 2010, helping explain why Portland Public Schools is now weighing the closure of up to 14 schools as enrollment plummets.
Education
View MoreWinterhaven School, a K-8 public school in Southeast Portland, earned the No. 1 spot among 721 ranked Oregon elementary schools in the U.S. News & World Report 2027 rankings, with 82% of students scoring proficient in both math and reading.
Education
View MorePortland State University will embed AI chatbots and peer tutors in high-attrition STEM and business courses under a nearly $3 million federal grant targeting first-generation and low-income students.
Education
View MoreThe Urban League of Portland's 2026 State of Black Oregon report shows Black voter participation nearly doubled since 2012, but the income gap with white households grew by $9,000 and Black teachers make up just 0.9% of Oregon's teaching workforce.
Education
View MorePortland State University cut the ribbon on the Jordan Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design on Oct. 13, opening a 106,000-square-foot mass-timber building that replaces a parking lot at the southern end of the South Park Blocks.
Public Safety
Local parents: Here's what you need to know about Baby Brezza and the CPSC recall of about 29,000 SuperFast Sterilizer Dryers after 32 reports of overheating or melting. Owners should stop using the units and register for a free replacement.
Public Safety
The FDA is warning parents not to serve Once Upon a Farm Tractor Wheels Organic Toddler Soft-Baked Bars after reports of toddlers choking on the product. The nationwide recall includes Oregon, and the bars were sold at Costco, Target and Walmart.
Public Safety
Two years after 22-year-old Leno Batista-Guzman was found shot dead inside a vehicle in Portland's Sabin neighborhood, no arrests have been made and his aunt says the case lacks a dedicated detective.
Public Safety
Portland Fire & Rescue crews used a specialized rescue unit to extricate a driver pinned inside a rolled vehicle on NE Sandy Boulevard, a High Crash Network corridor where intersection crashes have historically run 30% above the citywide average.
Community
View MorePortland's Veterans Day parade, organized by veteran Napoleon Hodgers after the pandemic ended its 46-year run, marches down MLK Boulevard on Wednesday at 10 a.m.
Community
View MoreThe Portland Art Museum has overhauled its Native American galleries under Senior Curator Kathleen Ash-Milby, replacing the old region-based layout with a thematic approach that puts contemporary Indigenous artists in conversation with traditional works.
Community
View MoreThe annual Portland Cheese and Meat Festival takes over Montgomery Park in Northwest Portland on Saturday, Nov. 14, with 59 vendors after the Leftbank Annex permanently closed.
Community
View MoreCharitable vending-machine kiosks called Giving Machines are scheduled at locations in Portland, Eugene and Medford this holiday season, letting visitors swipe a card to donate meals, clothing, hygiene kits and other items to local and global nonprofits.
Business
A Southern-cuisine sports bar called Checkpoint One soft opened Nov. 7 at 7325 NE Sandy Blvd in Portland's Roseway neighborhood, bringing fried catfish, gumbo and a dozen screens to a century-old building that previously housed a Vietnamese restaurant.
Business
The Mindaro, a 90-room JdV by Hyatt hotel in Parkrose, opened Nov. 6 as part of a 202-room campus near Portland International Airport that includes Jawfish Restaurant and Oregon's first Le Petit Chef immersive dining experience.
Business
The nonprofit Hollywood Theatre's Classic Film Club has grown from four screenings at three senior living communities to seven locations in two months, with facilitators screening movies and leading discussions at no charge to residents.
Business
Kurt Huffman's ChefStable restaurant group has applied for a liquor license for The Balboa, a new bar and restaurant at 1134 NW Everett St. in Portland's Pearl District that would stay open until 2:30 a.m. with DJs, dancing and pool tables.
Sports
View MorePortland Timbers captain Diego Chará, the club's longest-tenured player and first-ever Designated Player, announced Oct. 26 that he will retire after the 2027 MLS Sprint Season, closing a 16-season chapter that defined the franchise.
Sports
View MoreFourteen players from Portland-area high schools appear on The Oregonian/OregonLive's list of Oregon's best 6A boys soccer midfielders, led by Lincoln's UCLA-committed Andy Krapf and a six-player group from Central Catholic.
Sports
View MoreMcDaniel High School's girls cross country program fielded both a varsity and JV squad for the first time this fall, with captains Mira Shah and Mirai Ooglesbee posting personal records as OSAA state qualifying meets approach.
Sports
View MoreThe Cleveland Warriors girls soccer team opens Portland Interscholastic League play with a 5-3-1 record and a No. 15 OSAA ranking, powered by 21 combined goals from senior Ella Cohen and sophomore Stella Ahlemeyer.
Hip Hop
A free, four-day MF DOOM tribute art show curated by DJ Ronin Roc opens Thursday in Old Town Chinatown, featuring more than 10 artists, installations and limited-edition merch, alongside a Halloween night market on Saturday.
Hip Hop
Barn Radio, an electronic music venue in Portland's Old Town, has hosted 300-plus artists from 30 countries in a 75-person space, but a GoFundMe campaign remains about $20,000 short of its $50,000 infrastructure goal.
Hip Hop
Photographer Norm Eder's six-year, 520-portrait project documenting Portland-area musicians gets its first public showing at The Old Church Concert Hall, with a free Oregon Health Plan workshop for artists on Oct. 22.
Hip Hop
Grant High School junior Gus Jeffers has built a self-taught pop and R&B career through Portland's youth music organizations, including Friends of Noise and the Life of Music mentorship program.
Editor, Surround Sound Media
Roveena Chand Jassal is Surround Sound Media's very first news producer with a vibrant background in magazine and print journalism herself. Starting off in beauty and fashion at Women's Health Magazine and featuring my own mom and friends in an InStyle South Asian beauty traditions feature, I knew I had a passion for shining light on multicultural voices, especially growing up in the Chicago suburbs. After attending fashion shows in Miami and trying out products for Black Friday deals, I had a desire to do more serious reporting, and found myself being the youngest Punjabi Sikh journalist at Toronto Star. It was here where I really felt a connection to the diverse community I serve, from running around on the ground investigating international students being exploited for overpriced housing to amplifying those same students who have been able to find peace and confidence in the city's growing Hip Hop scene. I've had the opportunity to interview major celebrities, government officials, businesses, and creators, but what I enjoy most of all is being a contradicting human being because this truth is what allows me to pick and produce real stories that give a community true knowledge of their contradicting human being selves too.
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