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By Keely Chalmers Brad Pitt was in New Orleans to pick the winner of an architectural design competition. Pitt is spearheading a design contest for an apartment complex to be built in the Holy Cross neighborhood. The apartment will be both environmentally friendly and architecturally unique. ...
By Keely Chalmers for kgw.com Day 2 in New Orleans: Had to visit Cafe du Monde in the French Quarter. We walk through the quarter to get there. It's hot, really hot. We see a few tourists, but only a few. This is not the big tourist season. It's just too hot. I get it. We sit outside and have ...
By Keely Chalmers, for kgw.com I arrived in New Orleans Monday evening. I had seen the images of Katrina's aftermath. I had heard the stories. I thought I had an idea of what it may look like. I quickly learned, I was wrong. My friend Dawn Brown is the weekend meteorologist at...
I travelled to New Orleans with the Oregon National guard days after the city flooded.
Having lived on the Gulf Coast for four years before moving to Portland, I was used to covering hurricanes and the damage left behind. I had spent countless weekends in New Orleans, eating beignets at Cafe du Monde and shopping on Magazine Street in the French Quart... By: Lisa Helderop One year after Hurricane Katrina dealt her deadly blow to New Orleans and beyond, my heart still aches when I watch and read the news stories. I cannot imagine what it must be like to have lived there-- or what it is like for the people trying to rebuild their lives now. I was among a team of 8 news people KGW sent to New Orleans in the days after Katrina struck. My first a...
Today photographer Kristen Henderson and I went to Salem to talk to a female soldier about surviving a roadside bomb. We drove through the beautiful Willamette Valley, and found the soldier and her family in a house tucked away off a windy road.
I admit it. The only rodeo I've been to is Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles.
I've reported on a variety of stories over twenty one years in the news biz. Traveling to New Orleans with the Oregon National Guard left me with memories of a destroyed and dirty town---deserted except for the barking dogs. My worst memory there involves a dog stuck in a house across the street from a conven... Detectives have always fascinated me. I think its cool to be able to look a pieces of the puzzle and figure out the who and why behind it all. That's why its amazing to think about what fire investigators do. I interviewed Rich Stenhouse today. He's the lead fire investigator for Portland Fire. He told me he considers every fire scene a crime scene. He tries to rule the crime in or out as he pores over the evidence. And the fir...
Pipe bomb stories often leave me rolling my eyes. It seems we get calls every once in awhile about some device found somewhere---but my impression is that most are the work of a couple kids proving they paid attention in chemistry or physics class. The Salem pipe bomb story proved much different. Thu...
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8/08/06 Sometimes in the world of tv news the days are hectic and vaired. Today photographer KC Nolen and I began by covering a news conference featuring the head of Mercy Corps. Neal Keny-Guyer talked about his trip to Lebanon last week. It proved a powerful and moving experience ... especially because he live... Uh, sleeper what? It seems like a strange term. By now, most of us are familiar with the term 'sleeper cells' that describe terrorist groups here in the U.S., just waiting to be activated. Well, a sleeper fire is also just 'waiting for the call' to jump into action. After we have lightning storms, some fires are obvious. But many more are smoldering quietly. They're undiscovered, they're barel...
COVERING GAS STORIES Okay...I admit it. Sometimes we may cover gasoline stories too much. But today's story was different. BP is shutting down a huge oil pipeline that supplies a gob of gas (official reporter term) to refineries in the Northwest. A bunch of that ends up going into our cars and trucks in Oregon and Sout...
I've always been impressed by military families. I remembered why again today. I interviewed Debi Bosworth who has a 29 year old son in Afghanistan. And yet, when she began talking about her son and her fear about where he is...
I covered the death of a toddler today in Hillsboro. Her name was Dulce Hernandez Onofre. She was 19 months old. She died yesterday at the hospital. Police charged Dulce's mom's boyfriend in the death. We still haven't gotten the details, although I spent most of the day trying to dig them out. As a jo...
The grass is green and the young trees with their green leaves are stretching toward the sun at the "New Columbia" development in North Portland. At Mccoy Park a few handfuls of kids play on swings or sit under the shelter...or stand near the dancing water fountain with parents. Across the street bare plywood w... Whenever an earthquake shakes the Northwest, everyone loves to share their stories about how it felt. I thought that would be a fun reason for an interactive blog. Here are some examples from kgw.com viewers: Call me crazy, but I was laying in bed and could have sworn I felt an earthquake. I wasn't dreaming because I was in the midst of tossing and turning. Heard some noise, rattling, and felt definate movement. It's either...
As reporters, we sometimes get to go behind the scenes and do things that other people don't usually get a chance to experience. Stories about the Oregon Zoo have always been among my favorites, because I'm a huge animal lover and nothing compares to getting to meet some of the gentle giants in person, like the...
TV people are often late to events. Military people are often early. When the Portland Air guard invites us to events...they invite us early to protect us from ourselves. That's how photographer KC Nolen and I ended up at the gate to the airbase at six am this morning to get on a plane that left at eigh... |
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