Author: KGW staff PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — An abandoned church in downtown Portland caught fire early Tuesday evening. Dozens of fire crews were on scene working to put out the flames. Firefighters were first called around 5:30 p.m. to Southwest ...
Author: John Tierney (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Oregonians will have a chance to submit questions for the final debate of the campaign in the race for Oregon’s next governor. KGW and The Oregonian are co-hosting the debate on Wednesday, ...
Author: Blair Best (KGW) HILLSBORO, Ore. (KGW) — There are many different reasons why people become homeless. One of them is because their home or apartment fell into disrepair so badly, they couldn’t live there anymore. Habitat for Humanity has ...
Author: Blair Best (KGW) VANCOUVER, Wash. (KGW) — Over the past two decades, drug overdoses have increased across the country, reaching more than 100,000 deaths just last year. In Oregon, the number of overdose deaths have tripled over the past ...
Author: Katherine Cook (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Fentanyl test strips are designed to detect the cheap, powerful synthetic opioid that’s increasingly become a fatal problem. It was recently linked to the deaths of two Portland high school students and ...
Author: Alma McCarty (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Several neighbors living near the Gateway Fred Meyer in Northeast Portland are fed up with music coming from loudspeakers in the parking lot overnight, calling it both irritating and inhumane. The grocery ...
Author: Alma McCarty (KGW) VANCOUVER, Wash. (KGW) — Three days before Alicia Nilo was set to run a half marathon, she was shot in the hip while running on the Padden Parkway Trail close to her home in Vancouver, the ...
Author: KGW Staff MARION COUNTY, Ore. (KGW) — Marion County sheriff’s deputies arrested six people — four of them juveniles — after they allegedly went on a crime spree that included multiple burglaries, a stolen car, stolen guns and drugs. ...
Author: Christine Pitawanich (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — A lot of parents are paying close attention to what’s happening with the COVID-19 vaccine approval process for 5-11-year-olds. The vaccine approval process for them is no different than the process for ...
Author: David Mann PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Gun violence is the latest crisis to plague Portland. The city surpassed 1,000 shootings this year; 320 people have been injured and many have died as a result. Mayor Ted Wheeler sat down ...