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In 14 days, the city can begin fining building owner Stuart Lindquist $934 per month if the violations aren’t corrected, and double that if they persist after three months.

The complaint alleges that canvassers repeatedly failed to carry a copy of the ballot initiative’s complete text and falsely stated that the measure would hire mental health responders and 911 dispatchers.

The unanimous vote rejects appeals and paves the way for the redevelopment of the Northeast Portland mall.

The initiative appears to shatter the record for most signatures by 15,000.

Six councilors are on the ballot in November in districts 3 and 4. As it happens, polling shows those are also the districts with the most deeply held views on Moda Center funding.

The backers of a ballot initiative that would tap the Portland Clean Energy Fund to hire police officers announced Monday that it had collected more than 62,000 signatures, well over the required 40,437 to get on the November ballot.

The Portland Police Association, the union representing sworn police officers, has donated $793,532 to the political action committee behind a hotly debated ballot initiative that would use revenues from the city’s climate tax to hire some 400 additional police officers.

Owners Jonathan Cohen and Jessie Burke appear to be selling off most of their assets in Portland.

The city’s economic development agency is seeking renters to fill two buildings in the Old Town neighborhood that the agency repossessed after a failed shoe manufacturing project defaulted on its city loan.

Two dueling proposals to restore some of the public safety and jobs cuts baked into in the recently-passed 2026-27 city budget have emerged from the Portland City Council.

Portland’s Bureau of Emergency Communications reduced its average 911 call wait time from 77 seconds in July 2022 to 18 seconds in January 2026, according to a city audit of the bureau released Wednesday.

As Dundon spoke on Wednesday afternoon, the Portland City Council across the Willamette River held a work session on the Moda Center’s future.