A sudden snowstorm forced a Mount Hood ski area to shut down Saturday — an unwelcome twist in an already disappointing season.
Timberline Lodge announced that it would shut down its ski area Saturday as a snowstorm slammed the Cascade Mountains.
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📷: Timberline Lodge
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Portland voters view Mayor Keith Wilson far more favorably than the City Council though neither receive substantially high marks, a recent poll commissioned by The Oregonian/OregonLive found.
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Reader have chosen the finalists for the best places to stay in central Oregon, and you can vote for your favorite once a day until 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, May 19 at the link in our bio.
📸: @sunriverresort #exploregon #centraloregon
Portland has appeared plenty of New York Times travel features and dining roundups through the years.
But earlier this month, the Gray Lady published its first-ever starred review of a Rose City restaurant.
Chief restaurant critic Tejal Rao was “delighted” by many of the “labor-intensive” dishes at The Paper Bridge, the 2-year-old Northern Vietnamese restaurant that also landed on The Oregonian’s guide to Portland’s best new restaurants in 2025.
So, went to check out The Paper Bridge for ourselves.
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The Portland Rose Festival giveth and the Portland Rose Festival taketh away.
This year, the festival will include an extra fireworks show, in honor of the United States’ 250th birthday. And, it will have one fewer parade, as the Grand Floral Parade and the Starlight Parade melt into one.
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A Central Point man tried to kidnap a 25-year-old woman after stalking and tasing her at a mobile-home park in Medford last week, prosecutors allege in court documents.
On the morning of May 8, Aranda posed as a utility worker and waited for the victim for several hours at a mobile-home park in Medford, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. Aranda allegedly used a Taser, a conducted-energy device, on the woman and then physically attacked her.
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Is your little Liam learning to walk? Does baby Olivia have new teeth coming in?
Once again, the U.S. Social Security Administration has dropped the top 10 baby names in the country and the state for last year. And the results ... are following a pattern.
In the state of Oregon, the top five most common names for both boys and girls were all previous top names that appeared on the national list as well, but in different spots.
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How lit is the Fire Pit? 🔥
The WNBA is back in Portland and fans have shown up to support the Rose City’s newest women’s professional sports team. We asked several Fire fans before Thursday’s game what the atmosphere has been like so far at Moda Center and what it means to have the WNBA at home in Portland.
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📹 by @seanspix
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Woodburn police found the dog Wednesday morning in the 600 block of Willow Avenue, just west of the Woodburn Premium Outlets. Officers were able to safely free the dog and are investigating leads, police said.
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Another vegan staple is pulling out of Portland after seven years.
In 2019, Vertical Diner brought its plant-based tenders, burgers and breakfast plates to Southwest Portland — offerings that earned it the title of one of the best vegan eateries in the country, according to VegNews magazine.
The diner announced this week that June 14 will be its last day of service.
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You can’t always quantify nostalgia, but leave it to MarketBeat to try. The financial media company surveyed around 3,000 Americans more than 45 years old last month to determine which defunct retailers people most want to make a comeback.
But Oregon’s top five longed-for retailers, as MarketBeat shared in a news release this week, still revolved largely around physical media — including several book and movie chains of yore.
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Portland Community College President Dr. Adrien Bennings will leave her post at the end of June, months after the college settled a historic faculty strike that shined a bright light on the college’s worsening financial condition and its internal divisions.
The community college’s board called Bennings’ resignation “a mutual separation agreement.”
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