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 ...
Author: Kyle Iboshi (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — The city of Portland allocated $3 million in CARES Act funding to help bridge the digital divide by providing roughly 8,000 debit cards preloaded with $364 each to cover the cost of ...
Author: Alma McCarty (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — The president of the Portland Firefighters’ Association is sounding the alarm on possible safety issues after Oregon’s vaccine mandate placed more workers on leave. Portland Airport Fire & Rescue, run by the ...
Author: Keely Chalmers (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — There’s a national effort to bring wind energy farms to the Oregon Coast. The Biden administration wants to develop up to seven offshore wind farms on both the east and west coasts to ...
Author: Christelle Koumoué (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Most haven’t experienced what Benjamin and Lynn Krasowski are going through. The couple has lived in an RV for the past four years, since their son William was 4 months old. “People ...