City records show about $8.5M sits unused in Portland's Arts Access Fund as nonprofits see grant funding fall. Advocates and some council members want changes now.

Thunderous booms rattled Portland neighborhoods this week; fire crews checked multiple sites but found no obvious cause. Residents and scanners are still hunting for answers.

Double Dragon owner Daniel Casto bought the Richmond Bar lease and plans a cocktail‑focused, yet‑to‑be‑named bar on SE Division, aiming for a late‑March opening.

PF&R crews called a second alarm after responding to an apartment fire in deep Southeast Portland; a public information officer was en route and the scene remained active.

The Oregon Supreme Court set 60‑ and 90‑day deadlines for appointing public defenders and ruled charges must be dismissed when those windows are missed. The decision could touch thousands of cases.

Newly released surveillance video shows a meat cleaver passed through TSA screening at PDX on Nov. 13, prompting a full re-screening and renewed union criticism of staffing and morale.

Camas-based nLIGHT priced a $175M offering and is expanding manufacturing in Longmont while its stock slid after a long run-up.

Metro set aside $50,000 for a geotechnical study as advocates press to restore the Oregon Zoo’s long Washington Park train loop. Community signatures and volunteer work are already in place.

An adult man was shot near the 500 block of SE Yamhill Street Tuesday night. Officers applied tourniquets and no suspect was located, police say.

Owners' master plan would replace much of Lloyd Center — including the rink — with housing, offices and parks. Tenants and the Save Lloyd coalition have mounted a petition and are preparing testimony ahead of a Feb. 5 hearing.

Machetes, the Mexico City–inspired pop-up, will run Hey Love’s kitchen at Jupiter NEXT, bringing machete quesadillas, tacos and late-night al pastor to Burnside.

An unidentified detainee at the Clackamas County Jail died after being hospitalized, the sheriff’s office said in a brief release.

Crime Reduction Unit detectives say packages containing more than 31 pounds of marijuana were dropped for shipment out of Vancouver; a man was arrested and officers recovered cash and packaging supplies.