Oregon officials have been bracing for a perilous fire season even by recent standards, thanks to a mild winter that left little snow and left much of the state in drought conditions. Now it’s here.

“It feels like a slap in the face.”

Councilors, who heard the rationale behind the ranking at a Tuesday meeting, were only partially in agreement with the parks department’s suggestions.

The policy passed well before the explosive rise of AI, and therefore offers no guidance for how the district should navigate such software.

Portland Parks & Recreation lacked the money to either restore it or demolish the structure. That decision is now moot.

The stretch of road in question runs between 201st and 230th avenues.

Portland Permitting & Development fined first-time offenders thousands of dollars with no warning, forcing some to take out a second mortgage, sell their homes, or cash out retirement funds to pay the fines.

At stake was whether states could continue to count votes that were postmarked on or before election day, but arrived in the mail after.

Six members of the Portland City Council are up for reelection this November, in an election cycle that will test if either the moderate caucus or the progressive caucus—currently deadlocked with six members apiece—can gain a seventh member by kicking out an incumbent councilor and bringing in someone new.

The county says the new clinic is double the size of Gateway location it is replacing.