Of the 91 referrals, 19 went through the new Portland deflection center between its Oct. 14 opening and the end of the month, ...

A Multnomah County interim division director and former deputy chief of staff to Chair Jessica Vega Pederson is suing the ...

It's been two and a half months since Multnomah County began offering people who are caught with a small amount of drugs the ...

Dozens of people have agreed to deflection rather than going to jail for possessing small amounts of hard drugs in the first ...

He raised some $110,000, easily more than every other candidate combined, campaign finance records show. His top donors were ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — More immigrant families are migrating to Portland at an unsustainable rate. Mothers like Jamie, who has a 4-month-old daughter, said they were told Portland is a city where they could ...

Information KATU obtained through records request shows medical spending in county jails varies widely from county to county.

The Oregonian/OregonLive's politics team is a trusted source of information about the Tuesday, Nov. 5, general election in ...

The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office will be using the funds to help increase recruiting, hiring and retaining the staffing ...

Complicating matters even more is the re-introduction of criminal penalties for people possessing small amounts of hard drugs ...

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has paused Zenith Energy’s air quality permitting process, officials announced ...

BRENDAN FINN TO JOIN MULTNOMAH COUNTY: Gresham City Councilor Vince Jones-Dixon ... Jones-Dixon tells WW he’s hired Brendan ...