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Legal challenges have so far delayed the ordinance from taking effect since it was passed four years ago. It was not immediately clear when the ban would go into effect.

A few months after officials pledged to get the deflection program back on track, WW decided to check on their progress.

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 lawsuit is the latest chapter in the saga of ICE’s secretive plans for detention centers in the state.

Escalating liabilities soar faster than lawmakers appropriate money to pay settlements.

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 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 sentencing resolves just one of Donald Sharma’s many charges for delivering cocaine, heroin and fentanyl near North Portland’s Dawson Park.

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.

The accused were brought before federal judges and told they could spend years in federal prison. But then, a WW review of the cases has found, most of them came to nothing.

Activists including the land-use group 1000 Friends of Oregon have asked a court to intervene to block a slew of data center projects planned near Hillsboro.

All four of the immigration judges at the Portland Immigration Court have been in their positions for less than a year, according to records reviewed by WW.