Author: Thomas Shults (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — A summer heat wave two years ago was unlike anything many Oregon residents had ever seen. Temperatures reached 116 degrees, with nearly 100 people dying over three days of record-breaking heat. Now ...
Author: Jamie Parfitt (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — After releasing the details last week of a proposal to criminalize public drug use in Portland, Mayor Ted Wheeler announced Tuesday that he will not introduce the new ordinance after all. In ...
Author: KGW Staff PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Two northbound lanes of Interstate 5 are closed about one mile north of Southwest Terwilliger Boulevard in Portland after a semi truck full of chickens overturned early Friday morning. Traffic cameras in the ...
Author: Jamie Parfitt, Katherine Cook PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office on Wednesday released the details of a proposal to outlaw public drug use in Portland, punishable by a fines or jail time. The proposed ordinance, which Wheeler ...
Author: Mike Benner (KGW) SEASIDE, Ore. (KGW) — Nurses and clinicians walked the picket line Wednesday outside Providence Seaside Hospital. The honks coming from passing vehicles were a sign of the love the coastal community showed for the staffers on ...
Author: Blair Best (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Beyond the tents and boarded windows that shape much of downtown Portland are many homeless people using hard drugs as a cry for help. On Monday morning near the corner of Southwest ...
Author: Thomas Shults (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Early Monday morning, Providence Medical Group nurses officially went on strike at two local hospitals in Portland and Seaside. Providence hospice nurses joined them in the five-day-long strike. On Sunday, nurses said ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — After several hours of searching, Portland police have taken into custody a suspect accused of several armed robberies along North Interstate Avenue Tuesday morning. Police officers responded to the intersection of North Interstate Avenue and North Going Street just ...
Author: Alma McCarty (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. — Hundreds of people — including 70 competitors — attended the 2023 Oregon Truck Driving Championships this weekend, held at a truck terminal in North Portland. The Oregon Trucking Association President and CEO Jana Jarvis called it a festive ...
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 ...