Every Wednesday night during the summer, dozens of small sailboats zigzag along the Willamette River near Ross Island in what ...

Portland City Council passed a resolution on Wednesday urging Mayor Keith Wilson to join a swimmable cities charter.

Willamette River levels expected to remain low through the middle of next week in Portland Visually, snow is nearly absent from the highest elevations of Mt. Hood and Mount St. Helens.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Two bodies were found in the Willamette River in Portland on Saturday about six hours apart. The first body was reported around 2:10 p.m. north of the Steel Bridge. The ...

Portland's stretch of the Willamette River has become so popular among swimmers, paddlers and motorized boaters that this year the state launched new seasonal boating restrictions to reduce ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — A body was found in the Willamette River Thursday morning; the second body pulled from the river within the span of three days. Just before noon on Thursday, a 911 caller ...

Environmental groups have been pulling out mounds of garbage out of the Willamette River from Eugene through Portland. They say it's coming from riverside homeless encampments. Homeless advocates ...

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A human body was discovered in the Willamette River near the Steel Bridge on Sunday afternoon, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office.

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.

What influences the level of the Willamette River in PDX? I get the spring runoff, but in other seasons it seems to rise and fall at random times throughout the week.

Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office River Patrol recovered the body in the Willamette River near the St. Johns Bridge. Authorities have not identified the victim by name, age, or gender.