Dan Lay hollered as he revved up his wake boat and steered it up the Willamette River under Portland’s Broadway Bridge. “Here we go!” he yelled.

Volunteers paddled a stretch of the river near the Beltline overpass, pulling trash from shorelines, back eddies and the ...

A toxic algae bloom is seen at the Ross Island Lagoon on the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Sean Meagher/The Oregonian.

A Portland woma will try to swim a 24.6-miles down the river from the mouth of the Clackamas River in Oregon City to the Columbia at Kelley Point Park.

It’s gotten so bad, Oregon could propose regulations that would require riverside cities, ... A shopping cart bobs near the shore of the Willamette River in Portland, Ore., on May 29, 2024.

Finally, even though Portland is some 85 miles inland of the Pacific, the tides cause a roughly 2-foot rise and fall in the Willamette’s level every day—though it would be a stretch to call ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Dry river beds are becoming more common during this late summer drought in the Pacific Northwest. Oregon sees severe drought amid September dry stretch Parts of the ...

The Steel Bridge, spanning the Willamette River in Portland, August 6, 2015. Kristyna Wentz-Graff/The Oregonian. By . ... Search team finds body of missing Oregon man at bottom of 300-foot cliff; ...

Seven bodies have been pulled from Portland river in the past two weeks. Police say it’s normal. The bodies were found in various waterways, including the Willamette River and the Columbia River ...

A body was recovered in the Willamette River just to the north of the St. Johns Bridge. Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:24:37 GMT (1751361877426) Story Infinite Scroll ... PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) ...