• Police search for missing Oregon woman in Hawaii

  HONOLULU - Honolulu police are searching for a tourist from Oregon who has been missing on Oahu since Thursday. Police said Saturday that Ivanice "Ivy" Harris was last seen Thursday talking to a man outside a bar in Waikiki and has not been seen since. Harris traveled to Hawaii from Portland with friends to celebrate turning 29, which was Saturday. Her mother ...

• Family escapes house fire in North Portland

  PORTLAND, Ore. – Firefighters knocked down a house fire North Portland Sunday morning. No one was hurt in the fire. The family escaped the home with their dog and cat. The fire started just before 8:30 a.m. near the intersection ...

• 23-year-old woman killed on highway near Hillsboro

  HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) -- Washington County sheriff's deputies say no charges are expect against a minivan driver who struck and killed a 23-year-old woman who was walking on a rural highway south of ...

• Land trust opens new Oregon office raises profile

  VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) -- A Vancouver, Wash.-based organization dedicated to preserving land near the Columbia River has opened a new office in Hood River, Ore., in an effort to raise its ...

• With son in jail after manhunt attention turns to fugitive father

  EVERETT, Wash. -- On Friday, after an intense manhunt across parts of Snohomish County, police arrested Vincent Nutter in Clearview following a brief standoff with police and a few blasts of a fire hose.The 22-year-old man is in custody at the Snohomish County jail facing weapons violations and charges of eluding police.Now the attention turns to finding his father, Mark Nutter.Officers say the ...

• Woman 23 hit and killed while hitchhiking on Hwy 219

  This photo shows the damage to the vehicle that struck the woman early Saturday morning. The driver was not hurt. (Photo by Washington Co. Sheriff's ...

• Portland revisits issue of public fluoridation

  PORTLAND, Ore. -; While soaking up the rays in what's been an unusually sunny season, Portlanders have broken away from their polite chatter about food, wine and outdoor adventure to fight about whether to fluoridate the water ...

• New lab to give scientists underwater access

  SEATTLE — Scientists around the world will soon have access to a wealth of data from a lab at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The National Science Foundation is paying the University of Washington to put laboratory equipment as deep as 2 miles below the waves and partly on top of an underwater volcano. They will be turning on 40 sensors, of 13 different types, as they are installed this ...

• Oregon investigators conclude search for Susan Powell

  The father of a missing Utah woman, Susan Powell, said investigators found bones in rural Oregon while searching for her, but the remains are probably not hers. The West Valley City (Utah) Police Department concluded its search of a property in Scott Mills, Ore., Thursday, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. The search is the latest effort to find the remains of Powell, who was last seen Dec. 6, ...

• Idaho Power sticks with coal to meet power demands

  LaMont Keen, president and CEO of IdaCorp and Idaho Power Co., says the company will continue to get power from coal plants in Wyoming and Nevada for at least the next two ...

• Volunteers come out in droves

  Starting at 9 a.m., volunteers from United Way of Jackson County and parents from the school constructed a new brick patio, linked up the pieces of a playground dome, pulled weeds and sanded new picnic ...

• A comedic performance true to Neil Simons vision

  "Forty-five Seconds from Broadway" doesn't have a plot, and maybe it doesn't need one. It's as if playwright Neil Simon thought up a bunch of subplots without coming up with a main one but didn't let that stop him. The glue that holds the lighthearted, episodic comedy together is Simon's affection for his ...

• Central Point faction pushing for School Board write-in candidates

  CENTRAL POINT — A newly formed parent group is hoping to garner enough last-minute votes to land two write-in candidates on the Central Point School District 6 board after Tuesday's ...

• Providence breast center offers testing for rare gene mutation

  Movie star Angelina Jolie made headlines — and fueled a national discussion — last week with her announcement that she had a double-mastectomy to prevent breast cancer because she carried a gene associated with the ...

• Police Kidnapped woman assaulted for days in local hotel

  A man with two out-of-state warrants for his arrest allegedly kidnapped a woman and assaulted her multiple times in a Medford hotel room, police ...

• Acorn woodpeckers have odd but strangely familiar rivalries

  The acorn woodpeckers living in the maple that stretches above my house flew around squawking something that sounded like, "carrot! carrot!" Once they got over their outrage and grief (ah, dreadful anthropomorphism!), they set about creating a new nest ...

• Film training will focus on issues for aging gays

  The Rogue Valley Council of Governments Senior and Disability Services and Oregon AARP will present the documentary film "Gen Silent" at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 23, at the Smullin Center on the Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center campus in ...

• FBI searches Spokane Wash. apartment in ricin letters case

  SPOKANE, Wash. — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ...

• Learn about container gardens on Tuesday

  Master Gardener Sue Amatangelo will talk about creating and caring for container gardens at 3 and 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, at the south Medford Grange Co-op, 2531 S. Pacific ...

• Recycle old batteries for free

  In a recent column, you discussed disposal of electronic equipment and mentioned in passing that batteries were not good for landfills. How does one properly dispose of batteries (for hearing aids, remotes, CD players, radios, clocks, ...

• Who drained the pool

  It seems every decade or two in Medford, a few people would like to make a splash by taking a deep dive into a pool idea, while others prefer the economic safety of dry ...

• MT wins multistate journalism honors

  Reporters, photographers and editors from the Mail Tribune were among those recognized for their work Saturday night at the 2012 Northwest Excellence in Journalism ...

• Eagle Point School District race heats up

  More than 250 employees of the Eagle Point School District staged an eight-day strike in May 2012 before a contract agreement with district administration was reached. Whether candidates are pro-union or pro-administration is a key issue in Eagle Point School District races in Tuesday’s ...

• Masked gunman robs Portland marijuana dispensary www.privateofficer.com

  - An armed man robbed a marijuana dispensary in Southeast Portland at gunpoint Thursday morning, and the whole crime was caught on camera. The suspect approached the counter at the ReLeaf MM at 1034 Southeast 122nd Avenue and pointed a handgun at the two employees. He then ordered them onto the floor and stole their wallets, phones and keys as well as an undisclosed amount of cash from the ...

• Photos Halifax downs Portland at Memorial Cup

  Nathan MacKinnon scored at even strength, on the power play and while shorthanded in the second period Saturday as the Halifax Mooseheads exploded for five straight goals to defeat the Portland Winterhawks 7-4 in the first game at the MasterCard Memorial Cup for both ...

• Oregon family’s sawmill fails as logs way of life dwindle

  O’BRIEN, Ore. - Jennifer Phillippi’s grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses, and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out. In those days the forests were full, timber and work both plentiful. But now what was the last sawmill standing in ...

• Camilo Sanvezzo’s fancy moves can’t save Whitecaps from a 2-2 draw against Portland

  The Vancouver Whitecaps Russell Teibert and Erik Hurtado congratulate Camilo Sanvezzo on his first goal versus the Portland Timbers during MLS action at BC Place in Vancouver on Saturday, May 16, ...

• Woman who found injured dog upset after owner claimed him

  PORTLAND, Ore. – A Portland woman who found a seriously injured dog is upset that Multnomah County Animal Services is giving the dog back to his owner. The dog named Rodger was so badly injured that his leg had to be amputated. Alicia, who didn’t want to give her last name, called KATU after the Rodger’s owner claimed him. She’s worried about the dog getting hurt ...

• Hundreds remember UO tennis star at memorial service

  PORTLAND, Ore. – Family and friends remembered a 21-year-old University of Oregon tennis star at a memorial service in Portland on Saturday. Alex Rovello drowned one week ago after jumping off a 60-foot cliff ...

• Cassandra Darrah UW fall to Oregons home-run power

  The most successful season in the history of the Wisconsin softball program ended Saturday. Cassandra Darraha allowed only three hits but two were home runs as UW suffered a 3-0 loss to host Oregon in the NCAA tournament. Darrah (27-7) gave up a solo homer in the top of the second and a two-run homer in the seventh. UW (44-13) was limited to four hits by two Oregon pitchers, starter ...

• Wash. woman wins $75K for dog bite

  reports the woman was seeking payment for medical expenses, plus pain, inconvenience, emotional stress, scaring and other general damages. After a weeklong trial, the jury voted 10-2 to award Linda Astorga more than $25,000 for past and future economic damages plus another $50,000 for other damages from the dog bite on her calf in the driveway of her former home in Tenino in May 2009. Her ...

• Photos Celebrating Norways Constitution Day in Portland

  Norway's most important national holiday - May 17 (Constitution Day) - is celebrated here in Portland in a community-wide event sponsored by Grieg Lodge Sons of Norway for generations at Portland's historic Norse Hall. Da Vinci Arts Middle School's marching band led a parade through the streets of NE Portland. - 5/17 - (Kai Hayashi / ...

• Eugene schools face $16 million budget gap

  http://is.gd/y2hvDL ) that up to 20 teachers could lose their jobs because of the budget problems, and that number could nearly double if the teachers' union does not accept wage ...

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