Portland’s City Council is considering a plan to invest part of the city’s tax dollars in local credit unions and community banks. But first, the city must change its own rules on investing. On Friday, Mayor Sam Adams released the draft of a three-page ordinance that would give the ...

A 53-year-old man turned himself into police Thursday in connection with the Jan. 28 hit-and-run death of a 26-year-old Vancouver, Wash., man at Southeast 70th Avenue and Foster Road. Police said Jim Dean Patterson was charged with two counts of failure to perform the duties of a driver in the ...

A 21-year-old Beaverton man with Down syndrome returned home late Saturday night after wandering away several hours earlier from his Southwest Hall Boulevard apartment. Police said Jose Juan Diaz-Gutierrez, known as Johnny, apparently boarded a MAX train and ended up in downtown Portland, where he ...

Despite a recent rash of high-profile assaults involving MAX riders, bus drivers and passengers, crime reported on TriMet’s MAX lines is down dramatically – even with a growing transit system – according to statistics provided by the region’s mass transit agency. Back in ...

Mt. Hood Community College and Development Partners, sponsors of the proposed natural gas-fired power plant in Troutdale, are collaborating on a new program to train future energy plant operators. Mt. Hood and Development Partners will work with Power Plant Management Services and NAES Corp. on ...

One of the public’s most common associations with hazing might be the classic scene from “Animal House.” But in real life, there’s nothing funny about hazing. So says Sue Lipkins, a New York psychologist, hazing expert and author of the book, “Preventing Hazing: How ...

A new procedure to help people in the crucial first hours after they have suffered strokes may soon be the standard of care, according to an Oregon Health & Science researcher who contributed to a study released Friday. Traditionally, victims of strokes – which involves clots blocking ...

Clackamas County asked for more time to “carefully consider” a purchase offer before dashing Oregon City’s dream to construct a new library on county land at the intersection of Library Court and Beavercreek Road. County officials “support and welcome” Oregon ...

An overnight car vandalism spree hit neighborhoods in Lake Oswego, Mountain Park and Southwest Portland early Friday, damaging dozens of vehicles. In Lake Oswego, windows in 46 vehicles were shot with a BB gun or a pellet gun in Mountain Park, Bryant Woods and Westlake neighborhoods. Portland ...

Reynolds High School Principal Jeff Gilbert was placed on unpaid leave following the lapse of his administrator’s license Tuesday, Jan. 31. Gilbert, who has been principal at Reynolds since 2008, received an extra five months in July 2011 to get his license in order through the Teachers ...

Portland-area home sale prices in December were 2.4 percent lower than a year earlier, and they were 3.4 percent lower in November than the prior November, according to CoreLogic, a Santa Ana, Calif., real estate information company. Sales of foreclosed homes and other distressed property helped ...

A Gladstone police sergeant was fired for potentially criminal misconduct that had nothing to do with the 2011 killing of Higbee Benton, according to a document released Thursday by the city at the advice of the Clackamas County district attorney’s office. In a Dec. 12 memorandum, Police ...

Lake Oswego resident Greg Macpherson has made it official: He will run for mayor in the 2012 election. “I am undertaking this new public service because I see a city council that is too divided,” Macpherson said in a statement issued Wednesday afternoon. “Disagreement over public ...

TIGARD — When students at Deer Creek Elementary School were challenged to raise $15,000 in their annual jog-a-thon, they were told they’d receive a special surprise if they made that goal: They’d get to cover their principal in gooey, green slime. That kind of incentive got kids ...

TIGARD – It’s no secret that downtown Tigard has struggled to draw in customers during the hard economic times. But special events like street fairs and community get-togethers could be the answer to bringing people back to Southwest Main Street and the surrounding commercial ...

TIGARD – After more than 20 years of putting on the Tigard Area Farmers Market, Stan Baumhofer and Marland Henderson are calling it quits. “We (are leaving) because we’re getting old,” joked Henderson, who also serves on the City Council. “I have enjoyed it and I am ...

Cats may have nine lives, but there’s a certain group of dogs in Tualatin that have their own new lease on life. After operating out of a pet store for more than four years, Oregon Dog Rescue now has its own, permanent home at 6700 S.W. Nyberg St. in Tualatin, where the founders are busy ...

It’s often said an unjust, metaphorical “glass ceiling” prevents women from advancing upward beyond a certain point in the historically male-dominated workplace. On Saturday morning, however, a female gang of Habitat for Humanity volunteers were too busy raising a wood-framed ...

Results of a survey on the Tigard-Tualatin School District website show that most people are opposed to allowing the district’s on-campus health center disperse birth control to students and staff. For weeks the School Based Health Center’s advisory board has been seeking public input ...

Lake Oswego School Superintendent Bill Korach suggested planning for a K-5 Spanish immersion program to begin in the fall while keeping an expansion of the school district’s Mandarin immersion program on deck for now. “We are not positioned right now to do two languages,” Korach ...