The Willamette Falls Trust, a nonprofit led by Native American Tribes, is an initiative to make the urban falls publicly accessible. (Meghan Kearney/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Oregon Gov. Tina ...

Gov. Tina Kotek vetoed two policy bills on Aug. 7 and approved two items she was considering vetoing, including funding for the Willamette Falls Trust. Kotek announced on July 31 she was considering ...

CLACKAMAS COUNTY Ore. (KPTV) - On Thursday, authorities released the name of a kayaker who went missing on the Willamette River almost a week ago. According to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office, ...

The kayaker who went missing Saturday after going over Willamette Falls was a 20-year-old man from Porterville, California named Marcelus Angelo Rodriguez, officials said Thursday. Rodriguez had just ...

The volume of water cascading over Willamette Falls makes it impossible to search at the foot of the falls. (Jonathan House, West Linn Tidings) Authorities have recovered a second body from the ...

Long-simmering tensions at Willamette Falls spilled out into a federal trial in Portland this week, pitting Portland General Electric against the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde over the tribe’s ...

Willamette Falls $45M in public access funding approved … Video / Aug 8, 2025 / 06:14 PM PDT ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - A 400-million-year-old native species has arrived at the Oregon Zoo as part of an effort to restore the ancient fish’s population. The zoo says 25 Pacific lamprey from ...

GLADSTONE, Ore. (KATU) — The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office recovered a body along the shore of the Willamette River, just north of Meldrum Bar Park, on Sunday, May 4. Deputies were dispatched ...

The Legislature is poised to give more than $45 million to the Willamette Falls Trust, a nonprofit organization led by former Oregon Gov. Kate Brown that champions public access at Willamette Falls, ...