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The initiative seeking to reroute 25% of Portland Clean Energy Fund tax revenues to hiring some 400 police officers has failed to qualify for the November ballot. The initiative previously failed to qualify in its first sample. It has now failed the second and final sample.

Just before 8 pm on July 26, a 911 dispatcher received a call concerning a fire in the backyard of a Southwest Portland home. It was the home of Councilor Mitch Green.

Hundreds of people gathered in adjacent The Fields Park to watch the 116-year-old abandoned building burn.

After WW reported on the slide being shut down, the parks bureau has backtracked.

A tenant filed suit against Home Forward Wednesday over a cockroach infestation at one of the housing authority’s properties.

A frosty public meeting between city officials and Trail Blazers executives on Thursday offered little in the way of progress toward a Moda Center renovation deal that would guarantee the team stays in Portland.

The initiative seeking to reroute 25% of Portland Clean Energy Fund tax revenues to hiring some 400 police officers has failed the first level of signature verification necessary to place it on the November ballot.

The fate of Keller Auditorium is still up in the air after the Portland City Council punted the deliberation and vote to Aug. 11 after an afternoon of public testimony July 28.

Two longtime food cart pods in downtown Portland will close later this year after the development company that operates them says the city’s new regulations around waste disposal are unreasonably onerous.

The Brooklyn Park water slide in Southeast Portland—used by youthful summer day campers for nearly 50 years—was shut down after coming to the attention of Portland Parks and Recreation.

Secretary of State Tobias Read sent a letter to the Portland City Auditor on Tuesday demanding greater rigor, after the backers of a controversial initiative petition leveled a bevy of allegations against the city over its signature-verification process.

A jury has awarded $717,000 in damages to a family whose Southwest Portland home was crushed by a falling tree in 2024 after they had begged the city for two years to let them cut it down.