ODOT promotes awareness and reporting An ODOT variable message sign raises awareness of Human Trafficking Prevention Month (Photo courtesy of ODOT) The Oregon Department of Transportation is supporting January’s Human Trafficking Prevention Month, designed to educate people about human trafficking and the role we all play in preventing and reporting the crime. Human trafficking is a form of modern slavery that involves using force, fraud, or pressure to obtain cheap labor or

Targeted efforts credited with ongoing declines IACP Award The Portland Police Stolen Vehicle Operations (SVOs) have continued to show results, including arrests and recovered stolen vehicles. Additionally, the innovative, data-driven initiative is getting more national recognition. This year, there have been 10 Stolen Vehicle Operations missions, involving PPB and nine outside agencies, including the Gresham Police Department, Port of Portland Police Department, Multnomah Co

Legacy Executives Refuse To Bargain Ahead of Strike Frontline healthcare workers from ONA, OFNHP and AFT show their support for advanced practice providers (APPs) at Legacy Health who are preparing for a strike. Photo Courtesy of ONA The Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) has filed an unfair labor practice charge against Legacy Health for illegally refusing to meet with advanced practice providers (APPs) and come to a fair contract agreement to prevent a strike. While Legacy

S uspect seeks to block evidence in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing case Suspect Luigi Mangione is taken into the Blair County Courthouse on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pa. (Benjamin B. Braun/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP) AP-Luigi Mangione watched stoically in court Monday as prosecutors played surveillance videos showing the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York City sidewalk last year and Mangione’s arrest five days later at a McDonald’s

Cheney Expanded Vice Presidential Power & Championed the Iraq War after 9/11 President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney embrace following President Bush’s acceptance speech in Madison Square Garden during the final night of the Republican National Convention Thursday, Sept. 2, 2004, in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, file) (AP) Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading

Court says protests didn’t justify military deployment; final ruling expected Friday People protest outside a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Ore., Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) (AP) A federal judge in Oregon on Sunday barred President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland, Oregon until at least Friday, saying she “found no credible evidence” that protests in the city grew out o

An arson investigation is underway after a car fire at the home of City Councilor Candace Avalos. On Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 2:40a.m., Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R) responded to a fire in the Mill Park Neighborhood. Upon arrival they found several vehicles and a carport on fire. The vehicles were parked and unoccupied. Firefighters extinguished the fire, and no one was injured. PF&R requested a Fire Investigator and Portland Police. East Precinct officers responded to t

Portland Police Bureau are again asking for the public's help in a homicide investigation Krystal Pendergraph Detectives with the Portland Police Bureau are again asking for the public's assistance as detectives continue to investigate the homicide of Krystal Pendergraph. At this stage in the investigation, detectives do not believe this was a random act of violence. Based on available evidence, there appears to be a nexus between the victim and the suspect. Detectives believ

Dion Matthews Case Still Active PPB needs the public's help solving a 2015 homicide. (Photo Courtesy of Portland Police Bureau) The Portland Police Bureau is requesting help from the public to solve the homicide of Dion Matthews Jr. ten years after his death. On Sunday October 18, 2015, at 11:15 p.m., Central Precinct officers responded to the report of a shooting at Southwest 3rd Avenue and Burnside Street. Officers and medical personnel arrived and were directed to a nearby