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5 days ago
- Entertainment
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Kohr Explores: Fleet Week ships now open for tours
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — As part of the Portland Rose Festival, you can now tour U.S. Navy Ships at Tom McCall Waterfront Park. As part of Fleet Week, several ships pulled into Portland over the last few days. KOIN 6 News' Kohr Harlan visited the vessels to get a look. Watch the full video in the player above. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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03-05-2025
- Politics
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Portland mayor delivers State of the City address amid housing crisis, budget shortfall
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Portland Mayor Keith Wilson delivered his first State of the City address Friday afternoon. The speech, held at Franklin High School in Southeast Portland, comes as the city faces a $93 million budget shortfall and a persistent homeless crisis. He's not sugarcoating the situation. Portland woman dies after snorkeling trip in Hawaii Mayor Wilson said he is releasing his budget proposal on Monday, and he says it includes significant layoffs along with increases in fees for some city services. Regarding the housing crisis, the mayor and Gov. Tina Kotek are pushing to suspend system development fees to build 5,000 new housing units over the next three years. Portland man who stabbed woman, set apartment on fire receives 20-year sentence In an interview with KOIN 6 News' Eye on Northwest Politics that will air on Sunday, Wilson said the plan will help solve two of the city's other major problems in addition to housing. 'We have population decline, and we have the worst job creation in the nation,' he said. 'What this will do is to bring good paying jobs back into Portland and start that transformation, or that revitalization that we need, so not only does it address our housing crisis, but it addresses our job creation crisis as well.' Mayor Wilson said the following about the housing crisis in his speech: Last month, Multnomah County released their 'by name' homeless database. It confirms what we've seen on the streets. Our unsheltered homeless population now stands at nearly 7,000 today, far higher than it was just a few short years ago. Emergency sheltering hasn't kept pace, and the shelters we have are effectively full. Legally, logistically, morally… we are the responders. We are responsible for what happens on our streets. If we fail to act, my greatest fear is that we'll see yet another year of record-setting deaths on our streets. That rate was 456 in 2023, the most recent year where we have data. The County Medical Examiner has not yet released numbers for 2024, and 2025 remains unwritten. These are our neighbors, our classmates, and for so many of us, our loved ones. The trend of increasing deaths year over year is clear. If we do nothing, we will let people suffer by the thousands. AS YOUR MAYOR, I CANNOT AND WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS CRISIS AS OUR NEW NORMAL. That's why I ran for Mayor, and why Portland voted for me. We have a moral and political mandate, and we must act. Stay with KOIN 6 News as we continue our coverage for this story. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
30-03-2025
- Climate
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Oregon fire crews ‘happy to return favor' to North Carolina
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon is no stranger to wildfires. And Oregon is also no stranger to helping out other states when they need help battling their wildfires. three of the eight reported fires in North Carolina, including the two largest, Black Cove and Deep Woods, each around 35% containment. 'In the week we had two days of red flag warnings, which is obviously very problematic, you know, for dry fuels and gusty winds. However, those are gone,' said Neal Bond, a protection unit forester with the Oregon Department of Forestry. 'They are predicting, you know, rain to come in on (Sunday) and Monday. You know, we're hopeful that'll pan out. but then again, we got to make sure we get rain on the entire part of the fire.' KOIN 6 News' downed power lines are the cause for the Black Cover and Deep Woods fires. Kotek declares flood emergency for Southeast Oregon 'Some of the things that's really causing problems out here is we had Hurricane Helene come through last September. So that put a lot of trees down on the ground, which create a lot of jackpots of fuel,' Bond said. 'They've had all this time to dry out. And so the fire will kind of creep around, and then it will hit one of those jackpots and really start to flare up.' The ODF crews, 38 firefighters in all. deployed about a week ago and are ready to stay as long as needed. It's a return favor. Last summer dozens of North Carolina firefighters worked side-by-side in Oregon battling the 2024 wildfires that burned nearly 2 million acres. 'We're happy to return the favor here to North Carolina,' Bond said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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23-02-2025
- Politics
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OPINION: Political communications expert shares thoughts on Oregon's political climate
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Communications consultant Roy Kaufmann is no stranger to Oregon and national politics. He has worked as a director of communications for several political heavy-hitters, including a Portland mayor, an Oregon governor, and — most recently — former Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now KOIN 6 News' Eye on Northwest Politics was joined by Kaufmann in this week's 'Give Me a Minute' segment to share his thoughts on the times in which we 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
