News  Mayor Charlie Hales has declared "safety throughout the city has to be our first priority" after a 5-year-old girl was hit and killed by a car last night on Southeast 136th Avenue, near where the city proposed cancelling a sidewalk-building project."There has been a lot of talk of late about paving streets, and about sidewalks and crosswalks throughout our city," ...   More

News  Portland Parks & Recreation has cancelled plans to seek a bond measure in November.

Polling commissioned by Portland Parks Foundation showed insufficient voter support for the bond, the Portland Tribune first reported this ...   More

News  Mayor Charlie Hales says he supports the Bureau of Development Services' decision to issue a stop-work order on a controversial Southeast Division Street apartment complex after a state land-use board    More

News When he ran for mayor, Charlie Hales promised he would change the culture of a Portland Police Bureau known for controversial shootings and violent treatment of the mentally ill. But when polic   More

News  Another week, another budget standoff. This time, it's the sequester—$85 billion in federal spending cuts if President Barack Obama can't make a deal with Congress by March 1.
Who cares? you say. I only worry about things...   More

News UPDATE, 5 pm: After a flurry of meetings in the Bureau of Development Services and City Hall, the City of Portland is issuing a stop-work order telling developer Dennis Sackhoff to halt construction on the 37th Street Apartments, an 81-unit complex on Southeast Division Street.
"I'm working on a request for them to cease construction," says Paul Scarlet, director of ...   More

News  The City of Portland this morning began cutting down a 12-story sequoia tree in Pier Park in St. Johns to make way for a bicycle and pedestrian bridge, despite a week-long effort by neighb...   More

News  The State of Oregon's Land Use Board of Appeals has reversed the City of Portland building permit for an 81-unit apartment complex with no on-site parking on Southeast Division Street.

The appeals board's Feb. 20 ruling means Beaverton-based developer Dennis Sackhoff must h...   More

News  When Mayor Charlie Hales appointed Toby Widmer as interim director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation last month, the job came with clear instructions: Find money to pave roads.So Widmer appeare...   More

News Barely 48 hours before the first police-involved shooting of Mayor Charlie Hales' term—the killing of an emergency room patient allegedly waving a gun outside Portland Adventist Medical Center on Feb. 17—the mayor sat through a cras...   More