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The Strategic Services Division of PPB found crime dropped in certain categories in the six months following the opening of two new shelters.
On Thursday night, under the glow of Toronto’s skyline at STACKT Market, Canada Running Series (CRS) revealed the 2025 TCS ...
Monday morning, Portland police arrested a 22-year-old man described as a prolific tagger. The effort to clean up tags like those is costing us millions of dollars.
As graffiti vandals in Portland jockey for notoriety and positioning on the sides of buildings, police are struggling to catch perpetrators and clean up the city.
Pee Wee Harrison recently pitched the idea to install synthetic ivy on graffiti-prone retaining walls with a goal to make the city of Portland green again.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - Along the highway, covering the sides of buildings, on the walls of tunnels, Portland has been bathed in a sea of paint. “It’s graffiti is really when it comes down to ...
When Bruce Barrow drives Portland’s freeway and sees the graffiti along the roadside, on the overpasses and covering over the highway signs, the Northeast Portland resident takes it personally ...
Portland's City Council is grappling with a significant financial challenge following the Oregon Legislature's failure to ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Among Portland's contemporary woes, graffiti may not top most folks' list of concerns, but it's often somewhere up in the livability mix. More so than other types of crime ...
Earlier this month, the Portland City Council voted on some of its priorities for the year, including the plan to deploy more contracted cleaners for its Graffiti Program. We'll hear from a local ...
I-84 reopened Sunday just after 11:30 a.m. after six entities collaborated to halt traffic in the area and access unsightly tags.
The non-profit Torch of Hope trains young men like Nathaniel Willingham and offers free graffiti removal to Portland businesses through a city grant, July 2024 (KOIN) “This is my first job.