News For decades, Portland Fire & Rescue has had the political clout to fight any meaningful change in the way it does business. And, as city records show, that’s meant big budgets, slow respon More
In the Line of Fire
Is city hall finally ready to reform Portland Fire & Rescue?
News For decades, Portland Fire & Rescue has had the political clout to fight any meaningful change in the way it does business. And, as city records show, that’s meant big budgets, slow respon More
3rd & Choke
A bungled land deal costs the city $5 million—with taxpayers on the hook for the next 293 years.
News At the corner of Southwest 3rd Avenue and Oak Street lies an empty, weed-filled lot that may be the most costly dirt in the city’s history. The lot is on its way to costing its owner nearly More
Hotseat: Shemia Fagan
East Portland’s new champion pushes back against City Hall.
News Shemia Fagan insists she is not the new mayor of East Portland. That unofficial title, Fagan says, still belongs to East Portland ex-legislator Jefferson Smith. But Fagan, 31, is arguably More
Cavities in Their Campaign
Anti-fluoride activists have no backing from groups representing low-income Portlanders or minority groups.
News In the debate over fluoridating Portland’s water, the two sides trying to persuade voters can agree on one thing: Low-income children aren’t getting the dental care they need and deserve. And More
Pistol-Whipped
As the firearm debate fades, the numbers reveal patterns in Oregon’s gun deaths.
News When the gunfire fell silent after Clackamas Town Center and Sandy Hook last December, politicians raced to proclaim it was time to do something about gun violence in America. The news set off a More
Limbo Dance
CRC officials have spent millions to overcome a bridge design that’s too low. They still don’t have it right.
News When Oregon lawmakers recently agreed to hand over $450 million for the Columbia River Crossing, they put a condition on the money: Settle questions about how high the bridge needs to be. CRC More
Bridge End
Oregon backers of the CRC think they’ve won the day. They haven’t met Ann Rivers.
News Ann Rivers sips her skinny vanilla latte in a Ridgefield, Wash., coffee shop on a bright Sunday morning, smiling at the new role she has found herself playing in Northwest politics: the bridge kil More
Debt on Pointe
Oregon Ballet Theatre owes $300,000 in back rent. Just in time, here comes the arts tax.
News City officials finally produced details last week of a new arts tax that voters passed last November, requiring Portlanders to pay $35 a year to fund arts teachers in the public schools and suppor More
Timber Jam
A fired city bureau chief scores one last goal—expanding the parking district around Jeld-Wen Field.
News Sam Stidham, a sales clerk at West Burnside clothing boutique Reveille, had no idea that parking around the corner from her storefront had jumped to $3.50 an hour during Portland Timbers games. More
Teach Our Daughters Well
A new documentary looks at the promise, and lost opportunities, in education for girls worldwide.
News Outside the United States, losing out on an education means much more than poor job prospects. Girl Rising, a new documentary opening in Portland on March 7, makes the case that educating girls More
Top Articles from News
The 30-Year Secret
A crime, a cover-up and the way it shaped Oregon. Quake-Up Call
There’s a massive earthquake in Portland’s future—and a government “prophet of doom” will tell you all about it. Douchebags Not Allowed
Southwest Ankeny street says yes to cool and no to cars. Jack Shack Attack
The Legislature takes on Oregon’s proliferating lingerie shops. Lifestyles of the Rich & Fame-ish
Exposing the secret lives of Portland’s celebrity kinfolk. What the #$*! is Ramtha
The year's sleeper hit was inspired by a 35,000-year-old warrior spirit from Atlantis. Killing Time
Dead Men Waiting on Oregon’s Death Row. Budget Bud
Why Oregon has America’s cheapest weed. A Newsman’s Secret
The woman with Bob Caldwell on the day he died works as an internet call girl. Mayoral Madness
Let’s pick the next mayor the only sane way: with a bracket.
A crime, a cover-up and the way it shaped Oregon. Quake-Up Call
There’s a massive earthquake in Portland’s future—and a government “prophet of doom” will tell you all about it. Douchebags Not Allowed
Southwest Ankeny street says yes to cool and no to cars. Jack Shack Attack
The Legislature takes on Oregon’s proliferating lingerie shops. Lifestyles of the Rich & Fame-ish
Exposing the secret lives of Portland’s celebrity kinfolk. What the #$*! is Ramtha
The year's sleeper hit was inspired by a 35,000-year-old warrior spirit from Atlantis. Killing Time
Dead Men Waiting on Oregon’s Death Row. Budget Bud
Why Oregon has America’s cheapest weed. A Newsman’s Secret
The woman with Bob Caldwell on the day he died works as an internet call girl. Mayoral Madness
Let’s pick the next mayor the only sane way: with a bracket.
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