Vega Pederson had a tumultuous first—and last—term.

A group of staffers working for Portland City Council offices are seeking to unionize.

A law firm that regularly sues the city on behalf of protestors and victims of police misconduct is now representing five of the Portland City Councilors that belong to the council’s progressive caucus.

The Oregon Government Ethics Commission on Friday voted unanimously to investigate a private meeting held by the six members of Portland City Council’s progressive caucus, called Peacock, in August.

A group of people representing local nonprofits have filed a legal challenge to a ballot initiative that aims to reroute money from the Portland Clean Energy Fund tax to hiring 400 additional police officers.

The Portland City Council on Wednesday unanimously voted to appoint Raymond Lee as the city’s first long-term city administrator, the most powerful bureaucratic position in the city.

In a county where 7,500 people are sleeping outside on any given night, how can 955 publicly subsidized units sit empty?

The former director of the Portland Housing Bureau, Helmi Hisserich, who resigned after being placed on administrative leave in October by Mayor Keith Wilson after the two repeatedly clashed over housing and homeless policy, took aim at the administration in a letter this week to the City Council.

Home Forward, the city of Portland’s housing authority, is sitting on 955 empty affordable apartment units, according to a Nov. 7 vacancy report the agency provided to WW last month.

The real story behind a fire that transfixed local officials is one that is all too common in Oregon.