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After defying the city of Portland by rolling freight trains past the badly damaged Centennial Mills building in the Pearl District, Union Pacific is allegedly violating an agreement to not run toxic chemicals through the unstable structure’s collapse zone.

The Portland City Council on Wednesday approved a term sheet that in the following months will be used to negotiate a renovation and long-term lease deal with the Portland Trail Blazers.

City of Portland negotiators overseeing the Moda Center deal with the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday afternoon offered their recommended starting term sheet to the Portland City Council.

The three socialist councilors, in a joint statement about the weekend canvas alongside the Democratic Socialists of America and the Working Families Party, were blunt about their desire to unseat just one of the three moderates up for re-election.

Union Pacific Railroad intends to restart freight operations near the heavily damaged Centennial Mills building, which officials have warned could trigger the collapse of the building.

Prosper Portland has declined to provide a copy of external reports it commissioned to gauge the success of its taxpayer-funded loan and grant programs, even after an agency-backed project that secured $7 million from the city flopped and drew the scrutiny of local elected officials and the public.

Police dogs have identified the “potential presence of human remains” inside Centennial Mills, according to Portland fire officials.

The Portland City Council on Thursday evening moved toward approving a non-binding term sheet for the Moda Center renovation that would propose the city contribute $120 million for renovation costs in exchange for a lease keeping the Trail Blazers in town for at least 20 years.

The Portland City Council this week mulled a transfer of the franchise agreement between the city and Zenith Holdings, which controls the largest oil terminal in the state, to a private equity firm seeking to buy Zenith.

There is no timeline for when the park might reopen, city officials say.

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.