We caught up with agencies on both sides of the river to see how they're putting these high-tech tools to use.

The quickest and safest way for Bend police to respond first to an emergency could be a drone. Bend police have drones staged in containers atop two buildings near downtown. A drone operator could get ...

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The tests have included fitting small drones with explosively formed penetrators, an anti-tank weapon that fires a slug of ...

The Portland Police Bureau has announced it is expanding its drone program with the help of the Gresham Police Department, ...

As the threat of wildfires intensifies, modern technology is playing an increasingly large role in both research and ...

It's hard to overstate just how prolific drones are becoming in modern warfare. In July 2025, Russia used 700 drones in a single night of the war in Ukraine. Drones such as the deadly Shaheds used by ...

More than a year before the Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor attack, Britain’s Royal Navy gave the world a preview of the future of warfare when carrier-based torpedo-bombers launched a surprise attack on ...

In addition to satellites, could iPhones one day receive 5G from an unmanned high-altitude plane or balloon? Globalstar, the ...