News  Portland City Council on Wednesday directed the city revenue bureau to look for more potential changes to the arts tax.

City Commissioner Steve Novick has one in mind: He wants to change the v...   More

News Thomas Winston Morgan marched across Southeast Yamhill Street on a summer night in 2011 in a T-shirt, boxer shorts and flip-flops, and demanded the birthday party stop. The laughing voices comin   More

News The Grove Hotel, a project that Portland Development Commission officials pitched as pivotal to redeveloping Old Town-Chinatown, is on life support after the private developers refused to secure collateral for $900,000 in public l...   More

News  It must be something in the water: Neither side on the May fluoridation ballot measure can resist setting up parody social-media sites mocking the opposition's message.

For the second time in two months, someone has set up a decoy Facebook ...   More

News Grant High School has become the first Portland Public Schools location—and one of the first high schools in the country—to install unisex bathrooms for its transgender students.

An article in the student-run Grant Magazine    More

News  Among the more far-fetched bills in Salem this legislative session: a proposal by Rep. Chris Gorsek (D-Troutdale) that would force regional planning agency Metro to take over TriMet.

House Bill 3316 arrives amid increased clamor for change at the t...   More

News Mayor Charlie Hales is responding to pressure over a controversial 81-unit apartment complex on Southeast Division Street, forcing the developer to apply for a new permit next month.The apartment complex has drawn fire from neighbors since l...   More

News The Portland Bureau of Development Services is fast-tracking a revised permit application for an 81-unit apartment complex on Southeast Division Street, without consulting neighbors or City Council.

The city issued a stop-work order for Beaverton developer Dennis Sackhoff's controversial development last month, after a state appeals board said the permit was issued illegally. ...   More

Cover Story You won’t believe who is in Brian Wannamaker’s basement. Against one wall, Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock plays electric guitar next to a wild boar. Nearby, rock chanteuse Storm Large bel   More

News The Portland Bureau of Transportation has been chewing up directors lately.

Tom Miller, a protege of former Mayor Sam Adams, was undone by reports about the city's backlog of unpaved roads and media donnybrooks over bicycle projects. Mayor...   More