The 17-person body emphasized frustrations around transparency, noting the current budget is difficult to navigate.

The board first authorized the renaming process in March 2024, following advocacy from people at the school who said Jason ...

Investigators said Catherine Stough, 57, had told them she accidentally started the March 10 early morning fire as she was looking for food scraps in a trash bin.

The Portland City Council made a major change last week to the team of inspectors that enforces the city’s Tree Code, which regulates all street trees and some trees on private land across the city.

Portland Parks & Recreation faces a maintenance backlog of as much as $800 million in no small part because the bureau built new facilities—at least twice at the behest of political leaders—but didn’t ...

Get ready for the Portland Cherry Bombs FC, a new women’s pre-professional soccer team that will kick off its inaugural season in May 2026. The Cherry Bombs are the newest installment of the local ...

They set out hours before dawn, 13 hikers cutting through the darkness toward the summit of Mount Hood. It was May 12, 1986--the day after Mother's Day. Ten of them were sophomores at Southwest ...

No state has fallen further in terms of tax competitiveness than Oregon in the past six years, according to the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan, boardroom-friendly think tank that has studied U.S. taxes ...

Oregon Department of Forestry investigators have determined that the 2020 Santiam Canyon fire was not caused by downed power lines as plaintiffs’ attorneys have alleged but rather by hot embers ...

The mother of a Portland man killed in a White City, Ore., warehouse explosion after a butane hash oil extraction machine malfunctioned is suing the owner of the company, as well as the landlords of ...

Mayor Keith Wilson Portland Mayor Keith Wilson. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and other political leaders hold a press conference decrying Pres. Donald Trump’s vow to send federal troops to Portland.

This story was produced by the Oregon Journalism Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the state. As Oregon kicks off a general election year, Secretary of State Tobias Read is taking what he says is ...