Last week, a Multnomah County judge ruled largely in favor of the Portlanders backing an initiative petition seeking to ...

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Companies building data centers in Oregon already have a pretty good deal—and new economic development legislation pushed by Gov. Tina Kotek was poised to make that deal even better before an ...

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A few years ago, a large group of local elected, business, and community leaders met in private to discuss the economic ...

Raymond Lee says city is committed to keeping the facility open, even as the city works to implement new legislation aimed at ...

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For a good 5 years and longer, my teen neighbor kids and their friends play "Bball" in their 400 to 600 square ft concrete backyard. First, there's the intermittent and non rhythmic pounding of the ...

An attempt by Portland Police to recolor the thin blue line to green was gently swatted down this week by a Multnomah County judge. The Coalition of Communities of Color mounted a legal challenge ...