Oregon spends four times the national average on indigent defense yet thousands of cases have not been prosecuted because the ...

With the new year, comes new leadership.This is an opportunity to hear from elected leaders in two key offices.

District Attorney Nathan Vasquez claimed last month that instead of a public defender shortage, the crisis of unrepresented ...

A Portland man is accused of allowing teenage drug use in his home which resulted in the overdose death of a 15-year-old girl ...

A man is guilty of giving meth to a 12-year-old girl and raping her under the influence in 2022, the Washington County ...

Oregon voters approved a first-of-its-kind law to decriminalize all hard drugs. But after three disastrous years, the state ...

Whitehurst was driving a group of teens in Portland on July 5, 2023, when he ran through a red light and struck another ...

On top of stiffer penalties for street racing, police can start criminal forfeiture proceedings so that seized vehicles might ...

In a clear break from his predecessor, Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez promised this week that protesters arrested for breaking the law will be prosecuted — period. It was only ...

Schmidt, the once-popular District Attorney in Multnomah County – where Portland’s the county seat – was among dozens of prosecutors across the U.S. accused of being "soft on crime” and originally ...