The outdoor street fair portion of First Thursday has been canceled Aug. 6 due to poor air quality, according to Urban Art ...

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Portland City Councilor Angelita Morillo speaks to the demonstrators outside the Moda Center on June 24. (John Rudoff/Photo Credit: John Rudoff) The Portland City Council moved Thursday evening toward ...

On Jan. 9, one day after a federal agent shot two immigrants in East Portland, Portland Police Chief Bob Day stepped behind a ...

When two of Portland’s three largest hospital systems announced last year they were selling their testing laboratories to a multinational North Carolina corporation named Labcorp, executives offered ...

Just before 8 pm on July 26, a 911 dispatcher received a call concerning a fire in the backyard of a Southwest Portland home.

Many more enforcement notices were pending. A spokesperson notes the complexity of the staffing requirements, and says the ...

This story was produced by the Oregon Journalism Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the state. In a state that boasts the nation’s second-highest rate of unsheltered homelessness, the largest ...

The city’s economic development agency now declines to provide copies of those reviews to WW, citing attorney-client ...

As politicians struggle to grasp new dividing lines, fresh polling shows a majority of Oregonians across the political ...

Multnomah County commissioners were less than dazzled by the performance of the county’s drug deflection center during its first year of operation, which ended Aug. 31. At a briefing Thursday, ...

Native-owned restaurant Javelina and other local businesses taking supply donations to benefit the Confederated Tribes of ...