From kindergarten to middle schoolers, students arrived at a new Riverdale Grade School in Dunthorpe on Tuesday. The school opened its doors after a year of construction. Last year, students attended school at Smith Elementary School near Multnomah Village in Southwest Portland. Riverdale School ...

John Simpson is assembling a team to participate in the Portland ALS Walk on Sept. 26, even though nobody will be keeping score. “We only want to be there,” said Simpson, a resident of Lake Oswego for 18 years. “It’s my support team. They’re not competitors, ...

Lake Oswego City Council agreed unanimously to give $150,000 to the school district to help operate the district pool and the orchestra program. Mayor Jack Hoffman was not present for the vote. The money will come from franchise fees to avoid restrictions against using property taxes placed on ...

Brad Popick and his sister, Lynda Searcy, have a little battle going on this summer. Popick and Searcy own The Portland Outdoor Store downtown, and their battle is with a group of young, transient panhandlers called the Road Warriors. In the way that strong-willed people will do, the Road Warriors ...

The month after the City Council put a $72.4 million Fire Bureau-related public safety bond measure on the November ballot, the number of fires in Portland shot up dramatically. Firefighters responded to 81 fires in August — a full 17 more than the same month last year. According to city ...

One night last March, city regulator Anne Holm and three law enforcement officers raided a Portland health club off Northeast 82nd Avenue, where tipsters said an illegal casino called the House of Pain was operating. Masked gunmen had robbed an underground Southeast Portland poker parlor of the ...

Thirteen-year-old Spencer Hardy was told not long ago he had three to six months to live. Suffering from Ewing’s sarcoma, a type of bone cancer, the Portland youth refused to accept that fate and taped three sticky notes to his bed that read “I” “Will” ...

Although it seemed to come out of nowhere, supporters of the Multnomah County bond measure to help fund the Oregon Historical Society have worked hard behind the scenes to make it happen. County commissioners voted in mid-August to put the five-year, $2.4 million measure on the November general ...

Everything in Mr. Ferguson’s class has a label: the chair he sits on, the clock on the wall, the computer, the coat rack, the library of books he’s arranged so neatly in primary-colored plastic bins. The first- and second-graders in his class at Humboldt School in North Portland need ...

The Lake Oswego Corporation has done its part by getting 400 boats off Oswego Lake. Now the lake is on its steady descent 24 feet downward, the key phase of the Lake Oswego Interceptor Sewer project. “All of the boats that need to go off are off,” said Jeff Ward, lake manager. ...

A 31-year-old man was in critical condition Wednesday night after he was struck by a SUV while crossing Northeast Sandy Boulevard. Portland police did not release the man’s name. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment. Police said the accident happened at about 7:30 p.m. when the ...

Oregon’s workers’ compensation “pure” premium rate will drop 1.8 percent in 2011, the state Department of Consumer and Business Services announced Wednesday. The rate has not increased since 1990, and has decreased nearly 13 percent since 2006. State officials said Oregon ...

Dinosaurs must like the rain, because the Oregon Zoo’s dinos are sticking around until early October. Zoo officials said this week that the “Prehistoric Predators” dinosaur exhibit would stay until Oct. 3. That’s nearly a month more than originally planned for the exhibit, ...

A complaint by Oregon’s labor commissioner opens the door to a state civil rights investigation of Portland’s Typhoon! Inc. restaurants. Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian, head of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, initiated the complaint because of what he alleged were unlawful ...

Portland police are investigating a home-invasion robbery in which three men stole household items and drove away with the victims’ two vehicles. Police said that at about 8 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, the men brandished guns as they broke into a house in the 9400 block of North Bristol Avenue ...

Portland Streetcar service will be suspended for two weeks starting Monday to connect the new eastside line to the existing westside line. TriMet will provide shuttle bus service along the westside line from Sept. 13 to 26. The regional transit agency will be reimbursed $140,000 for the cost of ...

Administrators of Columbia County’s levees are scrambling to find enough cash over the next year or so to meet new federal levee certification standards. But exactly what those standards are is increasingly difficult to define. Still, if the standards cannot be met to the satisfaction of ...

The Oregon Department of Transportation announced last week that the state would dedicate about $8 million for rail line improvements in Columbia County. The money — $4.7 million to improve the rail connection between Port Westward in Clatskanie and Linnton, strengthening tracks to allow ...

Starting this month, students in the county can now get one-third of a transfer degree right here in Scappoose and St. Helens. The change, which was made to help residents save time and money by taking core classes in the community, comes after a year of input from county leaders and ...

Fifteen-year-old Joshua Devore exited Happy Valley's new Rock Creek Middle School after a short visit to a big surprise. He had left his $1,000 BMX bicycle in the back of his brother's parked pickup truck at the school, thinking that it was safe in the highly trafficked area with a low crime ...