Environment

OPAL organized around issues like lowering TriMet’s draconian fines for fare skipping, and making bus transfers valid for three hours after purchase.

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.

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

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

Native-owned restaurant Javelina and other local businesses taking supply donations to benefit the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.

Much of the smoke now above Portland is from the Grasshopper fire burning to the south of Mt. Hood.

A westward shift in winds on Monday cast an amber haze over the city as smoke from the catastrophic wildfires burning in central Washington and Oregon degraded the air quality.

The Akawa Butte Fire near Sisters was, as of Friday, the highest priority in the nation for resource allocation.

Temperatures could crest to 100 degrees again Wednesday, the National Weather Service says.

Oregon officials have been bracing for a perilous fire season even by recent standards, thanks to a mild winter that left little snow and left much of the state in drought conditions. Now it’s here.

Councilors, who heard the rationale behind the ranking at a Tuesday meeting, were only partially in agreement with the parks department’s suggestions.

The agency selected a California nonprofit to distribute what industry sources expect will be billions of dollars in carbon taxes.