Portland has revised its odor code, exempting restaurants after the closure of a Vietnamese eatery.

Oregon elected its first Black representative on Tuesday, flipping the seat from Republican to Democrat after a Republican representative won its election in 2022.

An Oregon radio station reasoned Election Day warranted "uplifting" music, making Tuesday the "perfect day to start" the holiday musical programming.

The Sherwood Police Department has canceled its planned "Hide and Seek with a Cop" event due to safety concerns.

Police have identified the same vehicle at the scene of two election drop box fires, one of which destroyed hundreds of mail-in ballots in Washington.

An Oregon police department's Facebook invitation to play hide-and-seek with uniformed and armed cops drew both criticism and praise from social media users.

On Thursday, the Oregon Secretary of State Elections Division was forced to halt its phone lines after receiving numerous calls from enraged supporters of Donald Trump following the online spread of misinformation.

Portland police discovered illegal drugs inside a bag labeled "Definitely Not A Bag Full of Drugs" during a routine traffic stop.

An 83-year-old Oregon man was scammed out of $90,000 by fake FBI agents, so he teamed up with real FBI agents to catch the thieves.

After a three week search, police have arrested a woman whose toddler died from suspected fentanyl exposure.

One of the properties at the auction, a decaying home on 87th Avenue, previously caught fire three times and has become filled with trash.

Alaska, Oregon and Virginia are the three states with the highest percentage of adults reporting some sort of loneliness

A man allegedly chewed off the ear of a 78-year-old man after mistaking the victim for a robot.

A jury convicted a man on manslaughter and other charges after he shot and killed a black man for complimenting his girlfriend.

A woman was reportedly forced to jump from a moving vehicle to escape after she was kidnapped at knifepoint by a man she tried to help. The incident reportedly happened in the 24000 block of NE 28th street in Camas, Washington, about 20 miles east of Portland, Oregon on Saturday, Sept. 3.

A woman who was on a hike has been reported dead after she plummeted 100 feet down Multnomah Falls in Oregon on Friday, Aug. 19. 

A man allegedly smashed a 34-pound rock against a woman's head just moments after he was released from an emergency mental health crisis center in Northeast Portland, Oregon on Tuesday, Aug. 9. 

An Idaho mother and her 16-year-old daughter who were reported missing after a recent camping trip was found dead in their van near Drewsey, Oregon on Thursday, July 7.

A romance novelist who has been accused of murdering her husband claimed on Tuesday to have a "memory hole" regarding her whereabouts during her husband's death as she continues to profess her innocence in the matter.

A woman in Oregon who was locked in a bitter custody battle with her ex-spouse was found dead on Tuesday with her two children in what investigators are calling a murder-suicide.

The trial of Oregon romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy started on Monday after she allegedly shot her husband to death in an attempt to cash in on his million-dollar insurance policy.

A 37-year-old former prison nurse at Oregon's only women's prison faces 25 counts of sexual assault charges.

A 43-year-old machinist, who police subsequently identified as a fan of teen gunman Kyle Rittenhouse, is under investigation after confronting protesters and opening fire on Saturday night in Northeast Portland.

Two Oregon men were tragically killed on Tuesday after a bear attack caused one of them to panic and accidentally shoot his brother, before killing himself in the aftermath.

A dog on a ranch was attacked and killed by wolves attracted by six unburied cow carcasses.

Six people were shot in a rap concert at an Oregon concert hall this Friday, with one left in critical condition while the shooter remains at large.

Police nabbed a deranged Utah man, who is accused of staging a hostage drama, where he held a woman captive for several weeks in sheer desperation to force her to fall in love with him. 

A COVID-19 victim's body was dissected in front of a paying audience for $500 a ticket in a Portland "freak show" without the knowledge of his grieving family, who agreed to donate his corpse for private medical research.

An Oregon man has been arrested after he allegedly shot a person of color to death for speaking to his girlfriend.

An axe-wielding man reportedly broke into a Portland home and resisted arrest by swinging a sword at armed police.