News The possibility of Nike placing its campus expansion in Portland's South Waterfront may be dead, but the non-disclosure agreements city officials signed with the sports apparel giant are very much alive.

Those agreements cover any incentive offers Portland Development Commission made Nike, as well as full details of the campus proposals the company showed city of...   More

News The Oregon Government Ethics Commission has ruled that a complaint filed against TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane is outside of its jurisdiction.

Retired bus driver and longtime TriMet scourge Al Margulies filed the ethics complain...   More

News Details of what Nike pitched to Portland City Hall about its possible expansion to South Waterfront are emerging in the wake of today's announcement the shoe and apparel giant will expand instead near its world headquarters in Washington County.

WW has learned that, ...   More

News  Turns out plenty of people would like a shot at running the Portland Bureau of Transportation.

The city has received 44 applications for the open transportation director job, officials say.

It's been a hot seat to occupy: May...   More

News  The Portland branch of the NAACP has voted to oppose fluoridating Portland's water supply.

“Children growing up in communities of color already face risks from many different environmental chemicals," NAACP political chair Cheryl Carter said in a statement this afternoon, "and they do not need more chemicals added to their drinking water.”

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News The residents of the Laurelhurst neighborhood aren’t happy about the new neighbor moving in from Spokane, Wash. Not that they liked the old neighbors much. The new resident since last Novemb   More

Sports Matt Braddock wasn’t about to let a fellow Portland Timbers fan pay $80 for a $25 ticket. Before the Timbers match against the San Jose Earthquakes on April 14, Braddock saw a scalper trying t   More

News The Kerns neighborhood in inner Northeast Portland is the first to request a "mini" permit-parking area under a program the City Council passed last summer.

Neighborhood residents in Kerns (here's a map) are seeking to require permits around Benson...   More

News As Portland City Hall continues looking for $21.5 million in budget cuts, one of the expenses under the microscope is 23 police officers in Portland Public Schools.

The school resource officers, a $2.4 million annual expense, have been offered up by the Portland Police Bureau as a possible cut—the cops say patrolling schools isn't part of their core mission.

B...   More

News Packy, the Oregon Zoo's iconic Asian elephant, turns 51 this Sunday. That's a milestone of middle age that could make anybody gloomy.

But Packy's blues may go deeper than that.

A vocal contingent has argued for years that Packy,...   More