Mark Graves

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.’

Six coyote pups and their parents, denning in an overgrown Southeast Portland backyard, offer a first look at The Oregonian/OregonLive’s upcoming project on coyotes in Portland and across Oregon. …

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.

Volunteers work on floats for the inaugural CareOregon Grand Floral Starlight Parade at the Big Float Barn in North Portland on Sunday, May 31, 2026. Crews build, weld, shape and decorate the floats by hand, using flowers, seeds, bark and other natural materials, ahead of the parade, which takes place Saturday, June 6.

The new Alaska Airlines lounge at Portland International Airport is seen Tuesday, June 2, 2026. The 14,000-square-foot lounge opens Thursday and includes more than 230 seats, a full bar, buffet, pancake machine and private bathrooms.

Roses are prepared, judged and displayed around the former ice rink during the Portland Rose Society Annual Spring Rose Show at Lloyd Center in Northeast Portland on Thursday, June 4, 2026. Participants cleaned petals and readied their blooms for judging while visitors stopped to smell the roses. The free two-day show features more than 4,000 blooms from rose growers across the Pacific Northwest and runs Thursday and Friday.

Catholics fill St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland during the Archdiocese of Portland’s Corpus Christi Mass on Sunday, June 7, 2026. Following Mass, Archbishop Alexander K. Sample consecrated western Oregon to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and imparted a Papal Blessing before a Eucharistic procession through the Pearl District.

Graffiti abatement underway at Gordon’s Fireplace, a highly visible vacant building covered in graffiti, with broken windows and boarded-up doors, at 3312 N.E. Broadway Ave. in Portland on June 11, 2026. Portland Graffiti Removal is painting the entire building, with work expected to be completed the following day, June 12, 2026.

People attend the High Noon Powwow during the 56th annual Delta Park Powwow and Encampment at Delta Park in North Portland on Sunday, June 21, 2026. The three-day celebration, organized by the Bow and Arrow Culture Club, featured traditional dancing, drumming, singing, vendors and food, drawing Native and non-Native attendees from across the Pacific Northwest.