News UPDATE, 8:30 pm: Portland City Council passed an amendment to heighten new requirements for apartment-building parking by a 4-1 vote tonight, with Commissioner Dan Saltzman voting no.
It also passed several other amendments. But it did not pass an emergency ordinance that would have required developer Dennis Sackhoff to add parking to his half-finished Divisi...   More

News Trail Blazers television commentator Mike Rice says the darndest things during game broadcasts. His son, Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice, Jr., screamed anti-gay slurs at his players during practice.

So, as of today, the younger Rice is no longer Rutgers' basketball coach.

The New Jersey university    More

News  David Bragdon is taking to the subway.

The former Metro Council president has a new gig: executive director of Transit Center, Inc., a New York City nonprofit that promotes public transportation with tax breaks for commuters.
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News When smoke drifted out of the halted construction site on Southeast Division Street early March 29, the owner of nearby Victory Bar called the cops. It wasn’t his first call about the unfinish   More

News If it's hip in Portland, New York City is sure to copy. First it was artisanal unemployment; then Andy Ricker's Thai food.

Now the Big Ap...   More

News  Portland City Council on Wednesday directed the city revenue bureau to look for more potential changes to the arts tax.

City Commissioner Steve Novick has one in mind: He wants to change the v...   More

News Thomas Winston Morgan marched across Southeast Yamhill Street on a summer night in 2011 in a T-shirt, boxer shorts and flip-flops, and demanded the birthday party stop. The laughing voices comin   More

News The Grove Hotel, a project that Portland Development Commission officials pitched as pivotal to redeveloping Old Town-Chinatown, is on life support after the private developers refused to secure collateral for $900,000 in public l...   More

News  It must be something in the water: Neither side on the May fluoridation ballot measure can resist setting up parody social-media sites mocking the opposition's message.

For the second time in two months, someone has set up a decoy Facebook ...   More

News Grant High School has become the first Portland Public Schools location—and one of the first high schools in the country—to install unisex bathrooms for its transgender students.

An article in the student-run Grant Magazine    More