After two decades in Seattle, the National Yo-Yo Contest’s Pacific Northwest Regional Yo-Yo Championship will be held in Portland for the first time. Florence on Oregon Coast named top place to buy a vacation home Thirty-four-year-old Chester Parks is one of the co-organizers for the upcoming event.

As the Trump Administration makes cuts in the federal work force,hundreds have been laid off from the National Weather Service.

By day, the former yoga studio next door to Coquine serves as a cafe and market with pastries, sandwiches, bottled wine and more. At night, it turns into Katy Jane's Oyster Bar, a new seafood restaurant from one of Portland's best chefs. Michael Russell | The Oregonian

KOIN 6 Meteorologist Josh Cozart said “we’ll likely have to wait week to week to see how this spring season unfolds.”

A powerful Pacific storm is taking aim at the Northwest. Heavy rain and strong winds will move across the region Monday afternoon into Tuesday.

“If you look up how fast a Boeing 737 has to go to take off, it’s between 145 and 155 miles per hour,” Branden Meadows, Deputy District Attorney for Multnomah County, told KPTV. “If you would’ve put wings on that vehicle, it probably would’ve taken off.”

Wednesday will offer morning showers, and afternoon sun breaks. Thursday should be a dry day with partly sunny skies. Oregonian file photo. A weak weather system off the Oregon coast will move onshore through the morning Wednesday bringing showers to the metro area.

The third powerful atmospheric river storm to impact the Pacific Northwest since the end of last week blasted portions of Washington and Oregon with hurricane-force wind gusts and torrential rain that led to widespread power outages,

BirdLife International deemed the 12,000-acre Sauvie Island Wildlife Area an Important Bird and Biodiversity Area, and Portland’s Bird Alliance of Oregon calls the island an accessible and diverse landscape.

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