Mark Graves

Members of the Bowerman Babes decorate their vans in Northwest Portland on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, a day before the Hood to Coast relay begins. The Nike employee team has won the women’s corporate division every year it has competed for the past 17 years.

The 16-month-old wolf has traveled hundreds of miles while searching for a mate and territory, but his comfort around vehicles and attraction to roads concern wildlife officials.

Video from a dozer on the Grasshopper fire shows flames burning nearby as the wildfire grows to 77,311 acres and Dufur remains under a Level 2 evacuation notice.

Grasshopper fire has destroyed 6 homes and 15 outbuildings as Mt. Hood National Forest crews fight the blaze on their home forest.

A stunning nighttime photo shows trees erupting in a towering geyser of flames and embers as a firefighter stands nearby at the Rowe Creek Complex-West Zone near Prineville in Central Oregon.

More than 45,000 acres have burned in the Brewer and Box Springs fires about 8 miles north of Prineville. A Red Flag Warning remains in effect until 11 p.m. as thunderstorms approach.

Westside Comic Con 2026 brought cosplayers, artists, vendors and comic fans to the Wingspan Event & Conference Center in Hillsboro over Memorial Day weekend. The nonprofit Washington County convention drew more than 1,000 guests, vendors and volunteers across Saturday and Sunday, according to organizer Laura Hoover, with a focus on comics, graphic novels, gaming and popular arts.

Hood River photographer Blaine Franger captured a spectacular spring thunderstorm rolling through the Columbia River Gorge, and the lightning photos quickly caught fire across Pacific Northwest social media.

Trail cameras captured a family of eight coyotes wrestling, exploring and bringing home dinner in a Southeast Portland yard — a first look at The Oregonian/OregonLive’s upcoming project on Portland’s ‘ghost dogs.’

Port Westward industrial park can be seen through the trees from the entrance to Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Ore. The industrial park includes three natural gas-fired power plants as well as an idle ethanol plant, rail lines, pipelines, storage tanks and a renewable fuel transloading dock.