Sophie Peel

Sophie Peel

Sophie Peel covers City Hall and neighborhoods.

Two People Arrested After Allegedly Vandalizing and Trying to Break In to The Society Hotel in Old Town

By Sophie Peel

City Councilor’s Chief of Staff Subject of Formal Complaint After Unruly Public Safety Meeting

By Sophie Peel

City Council Committee Spars Over Policy Process: “I Feel This Committee Is Being Ramrodded”

The first ordinance to move from a committee to the full council offers a test case.

By Sophie Peel

One of the City’s Largest Affordable Housing Developers Prepares to Sell 80 of Its Homes to an Unknown Buyer

By Sophie Peel

City Council’s First Policy Ordinance Could Ban Use of AI Software to Set Rents

By Sophie Peel

City Worker Town Hall Leaves Employees Frustrated

By Sophie Peel

Stop N Go Mini Mart Near Dawson Park, Whose Owner Was Arrested for Alleged Drug Dealing, Is Back Open

By Sophie Peel

Portland Parks Are on This Year’s Budget Chopping Block

By Sophie Peel

City Councilors in East- and Westside Districts Hatch Ambitious Plan to Build Sidewalks

By Sophie Peel

City to Pay Settlement to Journalists and Legal Observers Hurt by Police

By Sophie Peel

Venture Portland, Which Funds Business Districts for the City, Likely to Get the Ax

By Sophie Peel

Rigid Enforcement of the City’s Tree Code Is a Nightmare for Portlanders

Title 11 has empowered a city program to police the trimming, pruning and planting of trees as if they were illicit activities.

By Sophie Peel

An Effort to Make the Tree Code More Reasonable Died With Commissioner Nick Fish

By Sophie Peel

Fractured Relationships and Strict Rules Reduced Street Tree Planting in Some of the Hottest Parts of the City

By Sophie Peel

Owner of Convenience Store Next to Dawson Park Faces Felony Drug Charges

By Sophie Peel