PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Multnomah County announced a new rule to limit distributing tents to people experiencing homelessness, as a part of an ongoing effort to analyze the policy and its ...

Emergency medical services in Multnomah County ... Normally the county requires those trucks to have two paramedics. Under the temporary staffing policy change established in August, the county ...

Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson is defending what she calls limited and “rare” use of private email channels to conduct county business. The remarks came in a newsletter from the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners approved an agreement with the City of Portland on June 13 which unites the government bodies through a single “Homelessness ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — An ice storm contributed to record-low response rates for Multnomah County ambulances in January, a particularly dismal month amid a years-long slide in response times for ...

In the past three years, a Multnomah County spokesperson said they have also established a 24/7 Security Operations Center to enhance safety and security.

For the past seven years, Multnomah County District 1 has been home to a bomb thrower. Sharon Meieran, an emergency room doctor and lawyer, has used her perch on the city’s westside (with a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — AMR, the sole ambulance provider in Multnomah County, was fined $513,650 by the county on Tuesday for not arriving to 911 calls in the required amount of time.

The number of people experiencing homelessness of all kinds in Multnomah County—unsheltered, in shelters, and in transitional housing—rose 20% in 2023, an increase that county officials ...

All the while, with very few taking notice, Multnomah County’s comparable commission has been quietly working on its own momentous change: a ballot measure that could give residents who are not ...

Jessica Vega Pederson and Sharon Meieran are likely headed to a runoff election in the race for Multnomah County Chair, according to early returns of Tuesday votes. The two candidates, both ...

This year, 686 people were in transitional housing at the time of the count, compared to 519 people in 2019. Notably, people of color are still overrepresented in Multnomah County’s homeless ...