Portland Area Local News

Your forecast from the KGW weather team, updated several times daily. This includes the outlook around Oregon and in Southwest Washington.         

Less than two weeks into the 2020-21 school year, the shortage is already creating challenges for parents trying to get their children to school.         

Well over an inch of rain fell in the Portland area on Saturday, Sept. 18.         

It was Oregon State’s first shutout since a 3-0 victory over Pittsburgh in the 2008 Sun Bowl.         

Richard Schleicher of Kansas was a passenger in a car that crashed near Pendleton on Thursday. He was in Oregon competing in the Pendleton Round-Up         

Three rodeo contestants were traveling in a Volkswagen Jetta when their car rear-ended a commercial truck Thursday night in Eastern Oregon.         

A group of Hispanic winery owners and winemakers have come together for a month-long event, with a percentage of proceeds going to a nonprofit helping Latinas.         

One woman said her car was stolen a day or two after a young man stole her purse and racked up about $2,000 on her credit card at Fred Meyer.         

There's a patchwork of policies on how districts share information with families and the public, and what kind of information they share. Now that's changing.         

Back for its 50th year, the golf tournament is going on from Sept. 16-19 at The Oregon Golf Club in West Linn.         

The building in the 3000 block of Southeast Belmont was evacuated Friday afternoon.         

Harrington was appointed as chief in 1985, making her the first woman to lead a major police department in the country.         

The OHA's latest COVID-19 forecast shows a projected decline in daily cases and hospitalizations through late September.         

Grant McOmie got a view of the bioluminescent plankton in Netarts Bay in Tillamook County.         

Salem Health said 70% of the 400 high-risk patients treated with the monoclonal antibodies did not need to be hospitalized. OHA wants more providers to offer it.         

There have been more than 870 shootings and 62 homicides in Portland this year. In 2020, there were 891 shootings and 57 homicides.         

Corbett Fire said the beaver was trying to fall a tree when east winds blew the tree over onto a power line, sparking the fire.         

The FDA and Merck, the company that produces ivermectin, have said there is no scientific data that supports its use for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19.         

The victim, Patrick Pruitt, died 11 days after he was assaulted on July 15. On Thursday, a suspect, Antonio L. Howard, was arrested.         

Not everyone is on board with the plan. One critic argues the project is a massive, expensive freeway project that will lead to more greenhouse gases.