News With TriMet’s computer system for tracking arrival times knocked out by a car wreck this week, parking-free apartments piling up on the east side, and the price of gas hovering near $4, it’s i   More

News On a day when mayoral candidate Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland) faces grave challenges to his candidacy, he and opponent Charlie Hales are scheduled to take to th...   More

News It's Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland) vs. Charlie Hales at Portland State University, in the first televised debate of the general election. You can watch it on KOIN Channel 6, or read our tweets, or both.
Suggested drinking game: Every ...   More

News  Mayor Sam Adams announced this afternoon that he will stop pursuing the Oregon Sustainability Center—even though he secured a private tenant last month in a late-stage effort to salvage his pet project.
Adams said in a    More

Music Despite occasional pipe dreams of Major League Baseball relocation, Portland will never be home to the Oakland Athletics. But Portland has written a song about the Oakland Athletics.
Scott McCaughey of I-5 corrido...   More

News The Oregonian confirmed Tuesday it will start a second newspaper in Forest Grove, a Washington County town of 22,000. As WW reported last week, the expansion means war between two of the state's largest media companies.

The new weekly paper, called the    More

Elections Last month, the Portland Development Commission resumed negotiations on two long-debated projects requiring millions in public subsidies: an office tower in Southwest Portland without a carbon f   More

News All summer, Forest Grove-based Stimson Lumber has been pouring money into an independent Republican group called the Oregon Transformation Project Political Action Committee, trying to turn Clackamas County into a GOP strongho...   More

News Jefferson Smith is holding a 3 pm press conference in Terry Schrunk Plaza, presumably in response to today's WW report that he was cited in 1993 for misdemeanor assault in an incident involving a woman.

The conference was sched...   More

News Portland has picked a local bicycle-share company to run the city's long-awaited revamp of a public bike-rental program, even though the company has struggled to deliver a working system on time in other cities.
The Portland Bureau of Transportation today announced its choice of Alta Bicycle Share as its vendor finalist, with six months left until the city bike-share progra...   More