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Ross was relentlessly positive and kind, even while navigating an often difficult relationship between the city and the Southwest Portland neighborhood.

At an early April all-staff meeting, a senior OPB editor inadvertently screen-shared a Slack channel conversation in which three top OPB editors exchanged candid—and unflattering— views about new CEO Rachel Smolkin.

Three unlikely allies link arms to defend the city’s climate tax from city councilors’ policy ideas.

The Portland Association of Teachers said they won’t join the labor coalition if the Portland Police Association does.

Someone posed as a city vendor and “caused the city to direct a $6.7 million vendor payment to an account of his choosing,” the lawsuit alleges.

A poll commissioned by two members of the Portland City Council show that Portlanders would prefer that budget cuts be made to the police bureau and homeless services rather than parks and firefighters.

Councilor Angelita Morillo last week pulled back a proposed ban on AI software to set rents after one of the companies most-oft accused of price-fixing sued the city of Berkley, California over a very similar ban to that of Morillo’s.

An FBI investigation into the dealings of disgraced former Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan has ended. No criminal charges were filed.

$5 million in federal disaster relief funding that flows to the city could soon be jeopardized.

The city says it stopped receiving as much rental assistance money from the state and county.

A controversial proposal by Portland General Electric to cut down nearly 5 acres of trees in Forest Park will go before City Council at 2 pm Wednesday.

The ACLU of Oregon and 16 other organizations want the city to investigate what they call “retaliatory” visits by police officers to events hosted by two city councilors.

The nonprofit provider that since late 2021 has operated the city of Portland’s tiny pod village in Multnomah Village is getting the boot.

The proposal to raise the tax from 1% to 1.33% made it out of the committee and will head to the full City Council.

The police union’s admittance is now in question after labor critics took issue with it.