Portland saw one of its hottest days of the year on Wednesday as temperatures reached well over 90 degrees. As the city ...

The 2011 fatal shooting of Deondrae Clark, 25, spurred a series of what police at the time said were gang retaliation ...

A man was arrested last week for throwing large rocks at multiple children at a Portland park before chasing them into a daycare and threatening them with a knife, ...

Booklovers will have a new favorite space on Portland’s east side, as the Albina Library is set to reopen on Saturday.The ...

Capitol Park, at 9700 S.W. Capitol Highway, was built in 1983 and renovated a decade later. The 29,000-square-foot building ...

Shawn Crawford pleaded "no contest" to manslaughter for the shooting death of Deondrae Clark, 25, after a Jefferson High School football game back in October 2011.

Despite objections from the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office, Judge Angela Lucero reduced the charges against ...

For the first time in living memory, Portland in effect has two viable political parties—and the second one isn’t the ...

While it was extremely hot out Wednesday, city and county officials say it did not get hot enough to open cooling shelters or expand 211 services.

High Rocks Park in Gladstone and Glen Otto Park in Troutdale have seen increased numbers during the Portland area's latest heat wave.

• Another way to beat the heat: the Mercury's monthlong Summer of Slushies. Every year we get everyone into slushie mode. Then in August, we cruelly CUT OFF THE SLUSH. (Most of the bars still offer ...

Nigel Jaquiss, now with the Oregon Journalism Project, received second place in a new category, the AAN Excellence in ...