A compact bar cart called Square Bar has rolled into Pioneer Courthouse Square, offering cocktails, picnic seating and shade in downtown Portland’s central plaza.

Allstate says it paid $747,000 after a 2024 Humboldt neighborhood blaze and has sued a neighbor it blames for leaving a Solo Stove smoldering.

Clackamas County deputies responded to a reported drowning at Canby Community Park; officials posted a brief news release and released few details.

A Court of Appeals panel found Oregon's $500,000 wrongful‑death cap left a widow without a substantial remedy after a 2021 Highway 26 crash. The panel reversed and remanded the lower court's judgment.

ODOT says it will review the Scholls Ferry Road and Highway 219 intersection after a June 15 crash that killed a motorcyclist; neighbors say signs aren't enough.

Sip & Forage will open outdoor carts at 1900 SW 5th Ave while construction finishes, after months of permitting delays.

Business Oregon's TA program reports 932 business launches since 2023 after 61,330 hours of coaching and $11.3M in capital for underrepresented entrepreneurs.

A 23-year-old man reported being struck with a firearm in northeast Salem; police arrested two adults and a juvenile and say a gun was recovered.

Salem says new DHS/FEMA grant terms that bar DEI and demand immigration cooperation threaten more than $1M in storm-recovery funding and could stall urgent repairs.

A ballot initiative to create a participatory budgeting program in Portland cleared a procedural step this week. If approved, it would give residents a binding vote over roughly 2% of the city’s discretionary budget.

Three people were killed and one was injured in an early Saturday wrong-way head-on crash on SR 503 near Battle Ground, troopers said.

OHSU and collaborators mapped parasite peptides presented by HLA‑E that could let T‑cells provide cross‑species protection — a possible route to a universal malaria vaccine.

The Portland police union president told Lents neighbors that proposed budget cuts to PS3s, training and fleet will reduce patrols and slow responses in East Portland.