Tesla charging stations were set ablaze near Boston on Monday. Shots were fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon after midnight on Thursday. Arrests were made at a nonviolent protest at a Tesla dealership in Lower Manhattan on Saturday. The electric car company Tesla increasingly found itself in police blotters across the country this week,…
Authorities planned to pull several vehicles from the Columbia River on Thursday, including a car believed to have belonged to a Portland couple who vanished in 1958 while out for a drive with their three daughters, including two whose bodies washed up at a dam the following year. The station wagon believed to belong to…
Bend, Oregon — An avalanche in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains killed two backcountry skiers and a third was found dead in an avalanche field near South Kale Tahoe in California, authorities said. In Oregon, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that its search-and-rescue unit recovered two bodies west of Bend in Happy Valley,…
Bend, Oregon — An avalanche in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains has killed two backcountry skiers, authorities said Tuesday. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that its search-and-rescue unit recovered two bodies west of Bend in Happy Valley, near Broken Top Peak. The couple had been skiing when an avalanche occurred Monday at 6,700…
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge who already questioned the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order is set to hear arguments Thursday over a longer-term pause of the directive, which aims to end citizenship for children born to parents not legally in the country. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle has…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security and Medicare customer payment systems, according to two people familiar with the situation. The move by DOGE, a Trump administration task force assigned to find…
Climbers rescued on Mount Hood Climbers rescued on Mount Hood 01:02 A 26-year-old man from Washington state went missing in Oregon while climbing one of the most treacherous mountains in the U.S., authorities said Friday. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said the climber and his friend summited Mount Hood from the Timberline Lodge on Thursday, but they…
H5N1 bird flu has been detected in a pig in the US for the first time, sparking concern that the virus could become better at infecting and spreading between humans. The animal was found in a backyard farm in the US state of Oregon that was also home to H5N1-infected poultry, the US Department for…
Two ballot boxes were burned in Washington and Oregon on Monday, possibly damaging hundreds of mail-in votes with only about a week to go before Election Day. The Portland Police Bureau responded to reports of a fire in the Buckman neighborhood of the city at about 3:30 a.m. The fire had been extinguished by security…
Three election ballots were damaged after a fire was set by an “incendiary device” at a Portland ballot box early Monday, according to Multnomah County officials. Law enforcement officials said said they believe the attack is connected to two others in Vancouver, Washington, where hundreds of ballots were damaged Monday. A 2001-2004 Volvo S-60 is…