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Multnomah County is the latest local government to join a lawsuit over federal grant conditions tied to controversial ...

Clark County’s population changes every day. But two agencies — the U.S. Census Bureau and the state Office of Financial Management — make a yearly informed estimate of the population of the county an ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Portland firefighters responded to a two-alarm trash fire in the Northwest Industrial area on Friday evening.