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A boil water notice is in effect for the City of Portland west of the Willamette River and customers of Palatine Hill, Burlington and Valley View water districts. This means that water from the tap should not be consumed in any form unless it has been...
Tags: boil water, Portland, Portland Oregon, Bottled water, Diarrhea, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Water, Water pollution, Bull Run Watershed, Tap water, Multnomah County Oregon, Escherichia coli, Drinking water, Willamette River, Clackamas County Oregon
The Clackamas County deputy medical examiner is investigating Saturday morning’s grisly discovery of a human body found in the Willamette River on the Lake Oswego side of Hogg Island. Clackamas County sheriff’s deputies said a fishing guide and his clients...
Tags: Lake Oswego, medical examiner, Willamette River, Portland, Autopsy, Lake Oswego Oregon, Pathology, Forensic science, Law Crime, Portland metropolitan area, Clackamas County Oregon
As someone who has worked in city administrations on both sides of the Willamette River, Joe Gall has a sense of how municipalities and county officials can come together to address common issues. “When Washington County goes to Metro, they’re unified,”...
Tags: Loading Fairview Mayor, East County, Washington County, Fairview Heights, Gresham Oregon, Portland Oregon, Multnomah County Oregon, Willamette River, Portland metropolitan area, Metro, Fairview, Politics
House has lent support to efforts to restore a Willamette Valley stream degraded over the years by lightly regulated logging, trashy campers and rowdy partiers...House has lent support to efforts to restore a Willamette Valley stream degraded over the...
Tags: Molalla River Alliance, U.S. House, Oregon, PM House, Kurt Schrader, Portland, Molalla River, Canby Oregon, Willamette River, Willamette Valley, Portland metropolitan area, Clackamas County Oregon, Regions of Oregon, Politics, Environment
When you ask Scott Burns, a Tualatin resident and geology professor at Portland State University, how the subject of his newly released book would be of interest to non-geologists, he gets practically giddy with excitement. “It’s everywhere in the Northwest,”...
Tags: Scott Burns, Tualatin Valley, PSU, Beaverton, Willamette River, Geology of Oregon, Missoula Floods, J Harlen Bretz, Environment, Entertainment Culture, Regions of Oregon, River valleys, Washington County Oregon
This year's Portland Triathlon was held last weekend, August 22nd and 23rd, the third year for Portland Freshwater Trust. The triathlon immersed itself with Riverfest and the grand opening of newer digs for Portland Saturday Market. Quite a day...
Tags: Portland, triathlon, Willamette River, waterfront, outdoor, bike, run, swim
A Newberg man drowned in the Willamette River near Rogers Landing Boat Launch, Newberg, on Monday afternoon. Yamhill County Sheriff Jack Crabtree identified the man as 36-year old Oscar Cortes-Perez, who had lived in Newberg for about 10 years. He most...
In the upper left hand corner of the United States is America's best kept secret, Portland Oregon. This moderate sized yet multifaceted metropolitan city has many a charm that goes overlooked by most of the country. Portland has that North-Coast, misty-wet...
Tags: Portland, Oregon, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver BC, Willamette River, Pearl District, Craft Brewing, Henry Weinhard, Burnside Road, Everclear, The Decemberists, Pink Martini, Saks Fifth Ave., Columbia Sportswear, IKEA, REI, MAX, green technology, recycling, Voodoo Doughnuts, Keep Portland Weird, Gus Van Sant, Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, Body of Evidence, The Hunted, Untraceable, Elephant, Mt. Hood, Columbia River Gorge, wind surfing, Warm Springs Reservation, Spirit Mountain Casino
An 11-year-old boy was injured after he was hit by a car Saturday, police said. George Burnette Jr. was walking in the street in the 1600 block of Argonne Boulevard around 5:23 p.m. when a dark blue or black Dodge Intrepid traveling north struck him,...
Tags: Portland Police, Oregon, old boy, African American, west point, old girl, heard screaming, Willamette River
Deer hunters found a body that appeared to wash ashore off the Willamette River on Sunday. The body was discovered near Dodge Island Road in Benton County at about 2 p.m. Sheriff's deputies from Linn and Benton counties were called in to conduct the initial...
Tags: Benton County, Willamette River