News Before the line of well-wishers began giving him hugs, before any results were announced, Portland Mayor-elect Charlie Hales had scheduled a meeting with outgoing Mayor Sam Adams.

"I'll be meeting with the mayor tomorrow at 1:30," Hales told WW shortly before 8 pm at his election-night party at Holocene.

Minutes later, the first wave of election results showing...   More

News This week's WW cover story—on Stimson Lumber CEO Andrew Miller bankrolling Republicans in Clackamas County and Oregon legislative races—notes that Miller's favorite legislative candidate is Manuel Casta...   More

News  The Clackamas County elections office is embroiled in another controversy tonight after West Linn Police stopped two canvassers for Oregon House Democrats from collecting ballots door-to-door.
The canvassers were not arrested, but the officers made them return the one ballot they had collected, according to both West Linn Police and the House Democrats.
A West Linn polic...   More

News Political cartoonist Jack Ohman, who took a buyout from The Oregonian on Monday, is going to the Sacramento Bee. Ohman has drawn cartoons for The O for 29 years and was a Pulitzer finalist last year. Ohman has said    More

News This has to be the least-anticipated opening night in the last decade for the Portland Trail Blazers. Even the interesting questions—is Damian Lillard the point guard of the future? Is Lamarcus Aldridge worth max money? Will Nicolas Batum cock-punch anybody?—are...   More

Cover Story The rumble of raw logs bouncing through the sawmill’s machinery sounds like giants rolling strikes in a bowling alley. A metal lever thrusts...   More

News Charlie Hales has a commanding lead in the mayor's race, according to new polls released by The Oregonian and Fox 12 and Oregon Public Bro...   More

News The latest rule of Jefferson Smith's mayoral campaign is you do not talk about Jefferson Smith.In the wake of two polls showing Smith down 20 points to Charlie Hales, the Smith campa...   More

News The Oregon Tea Party's latest project is a bus.

The anti-tax movement has been given a former city bus by a donor, and is using it to drive canvassers into contested House districts to stump for conservative candidates.

"We had a bus donated that we decorated with Tea Party memorabilia that we're using to get out the vote," says Jeff Reynolds, a member of the Oregon Te...   More

News The mayoral campaign of Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland) has reduced its television advertising buys by $50,000 with three weeks left until election day, the campaign tells WW.That reduction is a quarter of the $199,562 worth of TV time the campaign purchased on Oct. 1, the day before WW broke the story that Smith was charged with    More