The city of Portland has 56 snowplows. That seems like a lot, but the “snowplows” actually serve as regular maintenance ...

The 2025 theme, “A Light for Tomorrow: A Technicolor Future,” invited artists to picture the city in the year 2045. Over the ...

Jessica Vega Pederson was elected to a four-year term as Chair of the Multnomah County Commission back in 2022.

Those are some of the conclusions of a long-awaited report from the tax advisory group of the Portland Central City Task Force, a panel convened by Gov. Tina Kotek in 2023 to rehabilitate Portland ...

TOPPENISH, Wash.-The city of Toppenish is considering upgrading the layout to one of their intersections. At the point where west first avenue and west Toppenish Avenue meet, they are considering ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland City Council held a meeting Wednesday night to discuss the potential for increasing the city budget by up to $4.6 million. The council voted to pull that extra ...

The largest dog show series in the Pacific Northwest is underway at the Portland Expo Center. The 2025 Rose City Classic kicked off Thursday. The family-friendly event draws the top dogs from ...

A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the Government Transition Advisory Committee's Council staffing recommendations. The Mercury regrets the error ...

Mayor Keith Wilson and Portland’s City Council argue they don’t have enough staff to fulfill the policymaking and public engagement demands that voters expect of them. Portland City Council ...

Portland began utilizing a mayor-council form of government in 2025. In Portland, the city council serves as the city's primary legislative body and the mayor serves as the city's chief executive. The ...

GWP also manages about 29,000 residential and 4,000 commercial and industrial water customers. The City of Glendale was the first ARRA Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) recipient in the nation to ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The Portland Police Bureau chief and city officials said on Wednesday that they are working to be ready for protests on or around Inauguration Day next week, and asked ...