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1 month ago | 
kgw.com | Thomas Shults |Luisa Anderson
PORTLAND, Ore. — A man convicted of burning down a 113-year-old Southwest Portland apartment building in 2023 is expected to be sentenced Friday morning.
In October 2024, Garrett Repp was convicted on 55 counts including arson and reckless endangerment.
Repp was a tenant at the May Apartments, located on Southwest 14th Avenue and Taylor Street, when he started the fire in his unit on May 13, 2023.
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1 month ago | 
kgw.com | Luisa Anderson |Ashley Grams
CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. — The Hood River County Sheriff's Office announced Thursday morning it will try to recover a vehicle from the Columbia River that's believed to be connected to a Portland family who went missing in 1958. Kenneth and Barbara Jean Martin disappeared with their three children — Barbara, Virginia and Susan Margaret — nearly 70 years ago. A neighbor reported them missing on Dec. 7, 1958.
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1 month ago | 
kgw.com | Thomas Shults |Luisa Anderson
PORTLAND, Ore. — Two Chinese sculptures on Northwest Davis Street and Northwest 3rd Avenue in Portland's Old Town were removed Wednesday morning. It comes more than a decade after some people in the city's Chinese community first called the statues culturally offensive. The statues were installed in 2006 as part of a streetscape improvement project meant to symbolize the history and contributions of the Chinese community in Portland.
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1 month ago | 
ktvz.com | Luisa Anderson |Alex Jensen
Tada Images/Adobe StockProvidence Oregon City is among the six hospitals where nurses went on stock. New Published February 25, 2025 2:31 pm By Luisa Anderson, Alex Jensen, KGWPORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Unionized nurses at eight Providence hospitals around Oregon have voted to ratify their contract, ending their historic strike on Monday. The two sides reached a tentative agreement on Friday.The deadline to vote on the contract was 4 p.m. on Monday.
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1 month ago | 
kgw.com | Luisa Anderson |Alex Jensen
PORTLAND, Ore. — Unionized nurses at eight Providence hospitals around Oregon have voted to ratify their contract, ending their historic strike on Monday. The two sides reached a tentative agreement on Friday.The deadline to vote on the contract was 4 p.m. on Monday. Nearly 5,000 Providence nurses voted overwhelming to ratify their contract, ending the strike, Oregon Nurses Association said.
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2 months ago | 
kgw.com | Alex Jensen |Luisa Anderson
PORTLAND, Ore. — A 29-year-old man was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison on Wednesday for firing shots inside a party bus in downtown Portland that left a man hospitalized for weeks.
In mid-December, a 12-person jury found Dwayne Driver guilty of attempted murder and assault. A Multnomah County judge sentenced Driver to the maximum possible amount, the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office said.
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2 months ago | 
kgw.com | Anthony Macuk |Luisa Anderson |Jared Cowley |Amy-Xiaoshi DePaola
PORTLAND, Ore. — It only snowed for about four hours in Portland Thursday morning, but that was enough wreak havoc across the metro area with dozens of flights cancelled, hundreds of school districts closed and a series of transit delays, as well as a miles-long traffic jam and later a full closure on southbound Interstate 5 near Hazel Dell.
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2 months ago | 
kgw.com | Luisa Anderson |Daisy Caballero |Amy-Xiaoshi DePaola
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland man faces multiple charges after his son's 15-year-old girlfriend died at their house from a fentanyl overdose two years ago. The man told police that he saw the teenage girl and his son using pills at his house days before she died, court documents say. Hooman Tony Rahnamoon, 51, has been charged with three Class A misdemeanors: one count of frequenting a place where substances are used and two counts of endangering the welfare of a minor.
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2 months ago | 
ktvz.com | Barney Lerten |Luisa Anderson |Daisy Caballero
Bend Police investigation any possible ties to crimes in C.O.By Luisa Anderson, Daisy Caballero, KGWPORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Investigators believe the same group of four suspects arrested last week in a raid at a home south of Sunriver are connected to at least 39 home burglaries in the Portland area and the Willamette Valley. Bend Police are looking into whether they also could be tied to any crimes in Central Oregon.
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2 months ago | 
asianamericans.einnews.com | Barney Lerten |Luisa Anderson |Daisy Caballero
Bend PD, CERT arrest 4 suspects in nearly 40 Oregon home burglaries targeting affluent Asian-Americans Bend Police investigation any possible ties to crimes in C.O.By Luisa Anderson, Daisy Caballero, KGWPORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Investigators believe the same group of four suspects arrested last week in a raid at a home south of Sunriver are connected to at least 39 home burglaries in the Portland area and the Willamette Valley.
