PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN) — Fire crews battled a heavy blaze at a Vancouver home Tuesday night, authorities said. According to the Vancouver Fire Department, five engines responded to East 17th Street where a single-story home was engulfed in flames. Officials said they knocked down the fire in 30 minutes without any injuries.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) increased a major recall on Lay’s potato chips sold in stores across Oregon and Washington.

If everything proceeds as expected, crews will begin construction on a new Interstate Bridge over the Columbia River in 2027, marking the end of decades of debate and frustration following a failed effort to replace the aging bridge between Vancouver and Portland more than a decade ago.

In Portland, clouds will fill the sky Thursday with rain holding off until the evening. The high temp will reach about 45 degrees. Friday will be a day of steadily falling rain. The high temp will warm to about 52 degrees. Portland may see about a half inch of rain by Friday night.

A community is on edge after more than two dozen shots were fired in a Vancouver neighborhood Sunday morning, leaving one home riddled with bullet holes.

District 2, covering vast Eastern Oregon and represented by Oregon's only Republican, Rep. Cliff Bentz, has the second most, with 7,887. Districts 1, 3 and 5, containing much of the Portland metro area, have a total of 15,730 employees. Washington's third district, containing Vancouver, has 10,104 federal employees.

Amtrak Cascades' passenger rail service linking Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland saw all-time record-high ridership in 2024.

The nonprofit reported that out-of-state judge panels selected the finalists, out of 212 titles overall. According to Literary Arts, the nominees “represent the richness of Oregon’s literary community and exemplify the power of storytelling to illuminate the human experience.”

An Oregon elections office was vandalized and heavily damaged just hours before the second inauguration of President Trump. Portland ... 30 a.m. and 4 a.m. in Vancouver, Washington, the FBI ...

The National Weather Service issued a cold weather advisory through 10 a.m. Sunday for the Portland metro area.

Find out which credit union saw its commercial loan portfolio grow by 30% and which bank boosted commercial and industrial loans by nearly $50 million, leading commercial lenders in Oregon and Southwest Washington.

Vancouver police are investigating after they found a dead man at Jaggy Road Park after a reported shooting. They also detained a suspect in connection to the shooting.