News In Portland Public Schools, it’s not only curriculum and academic standards that are changing. The standards for school lunches are changing too, due to a federal mandate.

Gitta Grether-Sweeney, head of the PPS nutrition services, says next year the school district won’t get reimbursed for lunches where a child does not select at least one fruit or vegetable.
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News Attorney General John Kroger, who campaigned on a promise to put environmental polluters behind bars, has doubled his count of jailed polluters: The total is now two.Kroger's office prosecuted an 86-year-old Columbia County cattle rancher for dumping manure in Muddy Creek and South Scappoose Creek, tributaries of the Columbia River, and operating his farm without proper permits.The farmer, William...   More

News Virgin America, the California-based airline that launched in 2007, announced today it would start offering service to Portland from San Francisco and Los Angeles in June. The company's website is already advertising tickets for $99 for people who book their flights by Friday.As part of the announcement, the company created a video advert...   More

News Wieden+Kennedy took a break recently from selling Old Spice and hanging with Clint Eastwood to sell a different kind of product: Portland's public schools.

At a Feb. 16 conference called "GOOD Ideas for Cities: Portland," put on by   More

News At least six members of Lake Oswego High School’s 6A state champion football team targeted one of their former teammates...   More

News The Multnomah County District Attorney's office will not prosecute any of the Grant High School junior varsity boys basketball players involved a Jan. 12 locker room assault because parents of the victims don't want to press charges.The news was first broken in an article in the Grant Magazine earlier this week in a news package dedicate...   More

News A leading Oregon health insurance company got punked Wednesday during an elaborate prank staged as part of an ongoing Occupy Portland protest against large corporations. (More coverage here and    More

Cover Story Occupy Las Vegas is on the line.  On Feb. 29, its members will join a national day of protest against corporations...
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News The city’s Parks & Recreation Bureau wants to fix up one of Portland's dog parks—and it wants you to vote for which one gets the makeover.

Parks spokesman Mark Ross says the Trail Blazers and Banfield Pet Hospital are footing the $10,000 cost of the park improvements.

He says the idea for using a popularity contest—rather than the bureau deciding internally which park needs...   More

News After a series of run-ins with his own party, it looks like Rep. Mike Schaufler (D-Happy Valley), will generate a primary opponent for himself.

In today's print edition, former Labor Commissioner Mary Wendy Roberts says she's considering a challenge and so, WW has learn...   More