Author: Blair Best (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Vern and his friend pulled shopping carts filled with cans and blankets across the train tracks under Portland’s Morrison Bridge on Wednesday morning. They had just learned their camp was being cleared ...
Author: KGW Staff PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Multnomah County continues to sit on millions of unspent dollars intended to support homeless services, an issue that first came to prominence late last year. At that time, the county had collected about ...
Author: KGW Staff PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Multnomah County on Tuesday reported its first suspected heat-related death amid a heat wave in Portland that has produced multiple days of triple-digit temperatures. The county medical examiner’s office is investigating the death ...
Author: KGW Staff SCAPPOOSE, Ore. (KGW) — A fire that took the lives of three people and a pet early Sunday morning is under investigation. Scappoose Fire District reports a residence off Northwest St. Helens Road near Old St. Helens ...
Author: KGW Staff FAIRVIEW, Ore. (KGW) — Three people, including two juveniles, are in custody for allegedly throwing rocks as large as softballs and a cinder block at vehicles in Fairview early Monday morning. Drivers started calling 911 just before ...
Author: Kale Williams (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Multnomah County has filed a lawsuit seeking billions in damages from 17 of the largest fossil fuel companies over the 2021 heat dome. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Multnomah County Circuit Court, alleges that ...
MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. – A verdict has been reached in a class action lawsuit against Pacific Power over the devastating 2020 Labor Day weekend wildfires. A Multnomah County jury ruled that Pacific Power was negligent in the 2020 wildfires. That includes the ...
Author: Blair Best PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) – A graduating class of Grant High School students surprised their kindergarten teacher all while dressed in their caps and gowns. Many of them hadn’t seen her in 13 years but turned out she remembered them ...
Author: Blair Best (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — It was nearing week three of Myrna Gardiner’s time at the Bybee Lakes Hope Center in North Portland. She sat on the chair of her walker in the parking lot to get ...
Author: Blair Best (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Diamond Howard lit a cigarette while walking her husky in Old Town Monday morning. She’s been homeless in Portland on-and-off for 15 years. She’s currently on four housing waitlists and yearns for ...