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Critics say the bill is an affront to Oregon legislators’ purported commitment to transparency.

Prosper Portland executive director Cornell Wesley on Wednesday night announced that the agency had withdrawn its choice of facilitator for a community advisory committee after backlash over the pick.

A letter from the director of Prosper Portland to the principals of a failed athletic-shoe manufacturing incubator in the Old Town neighborhood sheds more light on when and why the city finally lost patience.

The policy, intended to bolster ride-share driver wages, would cap how much a ride-share company could take for each ride.

Two elevators that allow cyclists and people with mobility challenges to use the pedestrian bridge over train tracks in Southeast Portland are both out of service.

Skye Brocker-Knapp, the director of Portland Solutions, wrote to the Portland City Council that up to 134 beds currently operated by Sunstone Way would be closing in the coming months.

Home Forward, the city’s housing authority, last week divulged more information to its board of commissioners about its high vacancy rates, nonpayment of rent and cash flow woes.

After more than a quarter century, the public could emerge as an unexpected winner from one of Oregon’s largest environmental disasters.

A policy intended to dampen human trafficking and sexual exploitation particularly along 82nd Avenue last week hit opposition from some councilors who worried that it would penalize small business owners and drive exploitation further into the shadows, making it harder to identify and help victims.

A Texas consulting firm led a session in which councilors expressed their policy hopes and dreams.

Portland leaders are talking about renaming César E. Chavez Boulevard in view of allegations that the civil rights and labor leader abused multiple women and young girls throughout his career.

Little, if any, discussion addressed the difficult question of what councilors would seek to cut