PORTLAND, Ore. — The amount of graffiti in Portland has risen to become quite literally a million-dollar problem. Earlier this year, the Oregon Department of Transportation awarded $2 million to ...

The Strategic Services Division of PPB found crime dropped in certain categories in the six months following the opening of two new shelters.

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. Fox News Media; ...

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 ...

In 2024, the Oregon legislature approved $4 million specifically for ODOT’s graffiti removal efforts in the Portland area. On average, ODOT currently spends $70,000 per month in the Portland ...

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 ...

On July 13 and 14, the state will close five miles of Interstate 84 between interstates 5 and 205 for 13 hours to paint over some of Portland’s most visible graffiti and pick up trash that has ...

Portland's City Council is grappling with a significant financial challenge following the Oregon Legislature's failure to ...

A man (no name given), scrubs graffiti off the Three Kings Building in on SW 6th Ave. in Portland, May 28, 2021. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.

By midnight, Emery Loya and two other members of Portland Graffiti Removal — an ODOT-contracted company — had gathered underneath the intersection of I-84 and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

The city of Portland has a major graffiti problem. Cleaning up the vandalism must be very expensive. A couple of prolific graffiti vandals have been arrested. One took a plea deal for no jail time.