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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has asked Nike to reopen its shuttered community store in Northeast Portland “on a limited basis,” even though he says the city can’t meet the company’s request to detail off-duty police officers to provide security. In his message to company executives, the mayor also revealed two broader strategies he thinks could help the sneaker giant and retailers like it minimize s...

The National Park Service has an important message for those who encounter a bear in the wild: Don't "push a slower friend down" when running away, even if the friendship is nearing the end of its life. NPS gave the cheeky advice Tuesday in a series of tweets, saying, "If not friend, why friend shaped? What about your other friend? Seeing a bear in the wild is a special treat f...

Washington is currently taking applications for business licenses to sell legal retail weed in the state through a special program that grants favor to people with certain experience: convicted drug dealers. The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board opened its "Social Equity Program" this week, which provides "a limited number of cannabis retail licenses to individuals dispropo...

After carjackers allegedly stole a pregnant Illinois mother's Volkswagen SUV earlier this month with her infant son inside, running her over in the process, local deputies said they immediately contacted the automaker so they could use its crash-response system to help locate the car via GPS. The automaker declined. The reason? The mother hadn't paid a bill, according to local authoritie...

Ben West remembers when Portland was a funky, artsy “crown jewel of the West Coast” with a great food scene. “Portland is a hollowed-out shell of what it used to be,” said West, a Clackamas County commissioner. “Businesses are fleeing and people are leaving for greener pastures.” Public safety officials across Oregon have complained of rising crime in their communities, but, according to police da...

Before Arteom Bulgadarian bought his Sherman Oaks home, it belonged to baseball star Yasiel Puig, who was burglarized of $170,000 worth of jewelry and other items while he was out of town. So Bulgadarian, 44, has been vigilant about security since moving in, especially with three young children and a job running an aerospace manufacturing company that often necessitates late nights at the office....

Attorney General Merrick Garland says Mexican drug cartels unleashed the fentanyl crisis on the U.S. "on purpose," and urged the Mexican government to "do more" to combat drug trafficking. Garland made the statement while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., pressed Garland regarding the opioid epidemic, highlighting that f...

FBI Director Christopher Wray has said that the bureau believes Covid-19 most likely originated in a Chinese government-controlled lab. "The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident," he told Fox News. It is the first public confirmation of the FBI's classified judgement of how the pandemic virus emerged. Many...

Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a runoff to be the next mayor of Chicago after voters denied incumbent Lori Lightfoot a second term, issuing a rebuke to a leader who made history as head of the nation’s third-largest city. Vallas, a former schools CEO backed by the police union, and Johnson, a Cook County commissioner endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union, advanced to the April 4 run...

The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress. The shift by the Energy Department, which previously was undecided on how the virus emerged, is noted in an update to a 2021 document by Director of National Intelligence Avril Hain...

A proposed Oregon bill would provide homeless people and low-income people with $1,000 per month for a year. The Department of Human Services would administer the People’s Housing Assistance Fund Demonstration Program, which would provide 12 monthly $1,000 payments to individuals who met the following criteria: experiencing homelessness, at risk of homelessness, severely rent burdened, or earning...

Squatters took over a homeowner’s property in unincorporated Lynnwood on Locust Way. All the problems and crime stemming from the home led to a massive raid by Snohomish County law enforcement on Wednesday. Investigators found 52 cars on the land – some of them reported stolen – along with drugs and firearms. Neighbors and the property owner say they’ve been dealing with squatters at the property...

For 124 consecutive months, spanning the bottom of the housing crash in February 2012 through the top of the Pandemic Housing Boom in June 2022, U.S. home prices posted positive month-over-month growth. That streak, of course, came to an abrupt end last year as the Fed's inflation fight set off a correction in home prices. On one hand, since their peak, national home prices have only fallen b...

Walmart is closing its stores in North and Southeast Portland, saying the two locations have not met financial expectations. The retail giant said it plans to shutter the stores at the Delta Park and Eastport Plaza shopping centers, including their pharmacies, on March 24. The company said it would work with its staff to instruct customers on how to transfer prescriptions to pharmacies of their ch...

A family in Portland is being terrorized by squatters who have set up camp next door and even set their property on fire. Jacob and Beth Adams live next door to an abandoned home that has been taken over by several homeless people.  The couple has caught the homeless people overdosing and stealing from their backyard - but said the final straw was when the group set their property on fire.  '...

As first reported by KOIN 6 News reporter Jashayla Pettigrew, Kenneth George Harold was a member of the U.S. Army stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord when he allegedly committed his crimes between February and April, 2021. He left the military in May 2022. Harold is charged with interstate riot and is accused of communicating with others or traveling to Portland on more than one occasion to inci...

Of the roughly 1,700 homeless Portlanders offered shelter during city sweeps of encampments over the past 10 months, just 11% remain in some form of temporary shelter and fewer than 1% are permanently housed, data provided by Multnomah County shows. Two-thirds of people swept from camps declined the offer of temporary shelter, the county reported. And among the other third who did move indoors, th...

"We absolutely, fundamentally cannot have people sleeping in our airports who are homeless," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said this week. The mayor made the comments as she takes steps to remove homeless people from O'Hare International Airport. As CBS 2's Marissa Perlman reported Friday night, homeless advocates are wondering where all those people will end up. But in Terminal 1, they...

A street drug that can worsen opioid overdoses is increasingly making its way across the U.S. The drug is known as “tranq” on the streets, but xylazine is actually a large animal sedative that has muscle-relaxing properties. When mixed with heroin or fentanyl, it can become deadly. Xylazine can also cause open wounds and sores, which can become severe enough to require amputation if left untreated...

The Idaho House of Representatives has passed a bill known as the "Greater Idaho" bill, which seeks to expand the state's territory by moving the Oregon-Idaho border to encompass a significant portion of Eastern Oregon. The bill grants Idaho lawmakers the authority to initiate discussions with their counterparts in Oregon to explore the feasibility of relocating the state line. Reps...

With a forecast of near-freezing temperatures and heavy rain on the horizon, the city of Portland’s homelessness first response team has been ordered to stop distributing tents to people sleeping outside. The announcement comes from Portland’s newest city commissioner, Rene Gonzalez, who oversees Portland Street Response, the burgeoning first response team focused on people experiencing homelessne...

Crews began cleaning a notorious homeless encampment in north Seattle Thursday morning. While the encampment is not being removed, a Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) spokesperson told KOMO News Thursday morning that contractor crews are picking up garbage, repairing fences, cleaning needles and more at the Ship Canal Bridge encampment at I-5 in Wallingford. Gov. Jay Inslee on...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — San Francisco is rethinking its “sanctuary city” status as fentanyl continues to kill a staggering number of overdose victims. Investigators believe that a significant percentage of people selling drugs in San Francisco — as many as half — are undocumented immigrants. “It is time to withdraw the protection of sanctuary from undocumented immigrants trafficking fentanyl on our...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A new proposal from Nike to the City of Portland asked for a partnership to protect employees and customers at its Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard store. While the Nike store at 2650 NE MLK Jr Blvd. is still listed as a location on their website, it is labeled as “closed for the next 7 days,” and has been since it was shuttered late last year with no explanation....

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Four people involved in major property development downtown — Homer Williams, Patrick Gilligan, Jim Mark, Vanessa Sturgeon — speak out on what people can see with their own eyes. The heart of Portland is in crisis. But this story doesn’t look just at the problems. KOIN 6 News also looks at their suggested solutions and their reasons for optimism. In conversations with these...