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

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