by Tyler James | Nov 2, 2025 | News
A large-scale search is underway in the Mount Hood National Forest after a 51-year-old man from Hubbard failed to return home from a hunting trip Friday night. According to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, the man — identified as Devon Dobek — had been hunting...
by Danielle Denham | Nov 1, 2025 | Christmas, Entertainment, Events, Family Fun, Featured, Festivals, Holidays, Things To Do
The holidays are here, and Oregon is about to glow. From river parades and Victorian streets lit by a million bulbs to drive-through displays with storybook scenes and towering nutcrackers, Oregon goes all-in on Christmas. This guide rounds up the most magical places...
by Tyler James | Oct 31, 2025 | Food & Drink, Restaurants
Nestled along the scenic McKenzie Highway sits McKenzie Station Pub, a cozy restaurant and bar where the smell of smoked meats drifts out the door and the coffee is always freshly ground. Whether you’re winding down from a day exploring waterfalls or simply passing...
by Tyler James | Oct 31, 2025 | Food & Drink, Restaurants
I’ve been slipping back into the booth at Busy Bee Café in Springfield for years now—not often, but enough to know that it still feels exactly the same as it did when I worked there twenty-five years ago. Back around the year 2000, when I was nineteen and scrubbing...
by Tyler James | Oct 29, 2025 | News
The father of a toddler who went missing and was later found dead in the Siletz River back in March has now been charged in connection with his child’s death. In March, a diver discovered 2-year-old Dane Paulsen after an 11-day search, according to KATU News. Court...
by Danielle Denham | Oct 29, 2025 | Adventures
There it sits, as improbable as a flannel-clad lumberjack at a tech start-up mixer: a weathered little shanty from the 1920s, tucked along NW Front Avenue in Portland, surrounded by gleaming high-rises, glass façades, and the kind of redevelopment that laughs in the...
by Tyler James | Oct 29, 2025 | News, Politics
A group of women known as The Soup Ladies, beloved across the Pacific Northwest for their selfless service to first responders, are now facing harassment after serving meals to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers at the Portland federal facility. The...
by Tyler James | Oct 27, 2025 | News, Politics
Senator Christine Drazan is back in the race for Oregon governor, officially announcing Monday morning that she will seek the state’s top office again in 2026. The Republican from Canby made her announcement at Gunderson Marine & Iron in Portland, telling...
by Danielle Denham | Oct 25, 2025 | Adventures
If you grew up yelling “Goonies never say die!” or dreaming of treasure maps hidden in old attics, this one’s for you. LEGO has officially unveiled LEGO Ideas The Goonies (Set #21363), a massive, nostalgia-packed tribute to the 1985 cult classic filmed right here in...
by Tyler James | Oct 25, 2025 | News, Not Satire
You really can’t make this stuff up. In a headline that's now making national news, about 50 students at Fowler Middle School in Tigard got more than they bargained for during lunch this week — when the “salt” on their pretzels turned out to be granulated oven...
