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Mike Schmidt and Nathan Vasquez, the two candidates for Multnomah County District Attorney, met for a final debate hosted by KGW and The Oregonian on Thursday. The two discussed protests at Portland State University after more than two dozen arrests Thursday as well as the rollback of Oregon's Measure 110, homelessness, safety on downtown streets, the public defender shortage and more.
Watch the full debate here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiDus... 

A Portland couple tried everything to get their son mental health treatment. Then, he killed his mother |
Hunter Graham says his family's tragedy is evidence of Oregon's flawed mental health system, which waits for someone to commit a crime before mandating treatment. In November, Hunter's son, Austin, confessed to murdering his mother, telling police he strangled her to death in their family home in what Hunter believes was a psychotic episode.  
Watch the story here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pN6j... 

In the community of Gearhart on the Oregon Coast, residents have become accustomed to the herds of elk that come to visit, even passing through residential neighborhoods. But things have changed in the last few years. Fewer of the animals started showing up.
That's likely because they were being hunted. Between 2021 and 2023, hunters killed 77 elk on a single property. And it's all legal — the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife issues elk tags to landowners who report that elk have damaged their property. They issued over 600 tags in Clatsop County alone during that same period.
The people who requested elk damage tags say it's necessary to deter the elk and the damage they can cause. But others think it's a tactic that's being overused, even abused. KGW investigative reporter Evan Watson took a closer look at the program and the impact it's having in this idyllic coastal community. Watch full story here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FHpF... 

Multnomah County is sitting on $65 million meant for homeless services. Bybee Lakes Hope Center has asked for $5 million of that to keep their doors open, having already put a freeze on new admissions to the shelter. Watch our full story here:  https://youtu.be/Taty54geEZI 

A cougar on one of Oregon's most recognizable landmarks! The Haystack Rock area in Cannon Beach was closed for about 24 hours after a cougar was spotted on the iconic rock formation. Watch the story here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4QiJ... 

Tristin Schiess visited a pharmacy while on a family cruise in Mexico and bought what he thought was oxycodone. When the 22-year-old returned home to Salem, his mother found him dead in his bedroom from a fentanyl overdose. Watch this KGW exclusive about the warning on counterfeit pills:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Sow... 

A man in a wheelchair was hit on a Northeast Portland street. He died waiting for an ambulance that took 32 minutes to arrive. 
Watch the latest KGW investigation here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM1qy... 

We've checked in a few times recently about the overall price tag for a new I-5 crossing over the Columbia River and how Oregon and Washington intend to pay for it.
 But within those discussions, which are still ongoing, we're also starting to learn more about what this thing will look like, how it'll be built and what each piece actually costs.

For instance, we know now that this will be a twin-span design, just like the current bridge — but they're probably only building one at a time, which will mean that commuters will be crossing a single bridge until the second one is built. All that and more:  https://youtu.be/5zbTrbusWcA 

Beginning on Labor Day in September 2020, a historic wind event that blew through Oregon helped ignite or spread multiple fires — some of them growing to massive proportions. The fires burned down thousands of homes and other structures, killing almost a dozen people.

Not long after that, investigations into the origins of the fires began, soon followed by lawsuits. One of those suits accuses utility company Pacific Power of starting some of the major fires by failing to de-energize power lines in extremely high-risk areas.

Now, more than two years later, that $1.6 billion class action suit is finally going to trial. Tonight, we went through the opening arguments in this landmark case:  https://youtu.be/GBpfRwbIYVc 

Nearly a dozen counties in eastern Oregon have now voted to consider seceding from the state in order to join Idaho. The "Greater Idaho" movement is a longshot effort, but it's also the symptom, we're told, of deep discontentment with the state of Oregon. The Story team traveled to Eastern Oregon to hear from people. You'll see those stories this week, streaming live at 6 p.m. First episode:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fBGD...