(AP) — A businessman with no experience in public office is taking over as mayor of Oregon ... the City Council chambers had to be completely renovated. Portland voters last month elected ...

Michael Jordan, a powerful fixture within the city’s new form of government, will remain in his post through the end of the ...

Officials in a newly transformed Portland City Hall are preparing for a season of budget cuts thanks to a projected $27 million budget gap that’s expected to keep growing. Freshly sworn-in members of ...

Portland’s policy making body is about to get a whole lot bigger, with 12 members soon to be picked from geographic quadrants of the city ... director of SEIU Oregon State Council, said there ...

Pirtle-Guiney has a long history in Oregon government ... I would be open to that … This is a new thing for Portland to have a city council that is independent from the mayor and the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Less than a month into office, Portland’s new City Council is already tackling ... the director of the Sierra Club’s Oregon chapter said. “Zenith Energy is not ...

The council expects to adopt the same goals it had last year, with the addition of effectively reusing the former Mahoney Middle School building. The South Portland City Council brainstormed goals ...

"Defunded." "Not set up for success." Portland's city councilors had blunt words to describe the budget bestowed on them by the prior Council. The city’s new 12-person City Council voted ...

At the beginning of the year, Portland’s new city council elected Elana Pirtle-Guiney ... Pirtle-Guiney has a long history in Oregon government, having previously led legislative affairs and ...

The year-round resource center is also backed by research from Oregon Health and Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute. After hearing about their experiences, Portland City Council ...