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

News The Oregon Legislature is poised to strictly limit the use of unmanned drones in Oregon airspace this week, as the threat of machines monitoring American citizens from the skies has gripped imaginations on the right and left.

The legisla...   More

News Mayor Charlie Hales is placing an emergency ordinance on next week's City Council agenda to fix a "silly" technicality in the arts tax passed by voters in November.Hales' office says the way the ballot measure was written, any person making any incom...   More

News Lewis & Clark Law School professor and blogger Jack Bogdanski has filed a lawsuit against the City of Portland in Oregon Tax Court, alleging the city's $35 arts tax violates the state constitution.

Bogdanski's lawsuit, obtained today by WW, was filed on March 7.It's the only lawsuit pending against the arts tax, according to a...   More

News  Mayor Charlie Hales is reversing a controversial decision to cut a city grant to fund summer teen internships.

Hales will restore a $194,000 grant for nonprofit Worksystems Inc. to fund 97 summ...   More

News Portland Streetcar has collected a little over half the fares it projected when it installed $1 fare boxes along its lines last fall.

The lack of fare revenue means the Portland Bureau of Transportation faces a shortfall in funding the streetcar's $8.9 million annual operating budget.
That analysis comes from the    More