Dragging yourself out of your home during the winter months is easier when you're just moving to a warm restaurant or pub.

PORTLAND, Ore. — More than a thousand unionized city of Portland workers voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to strike following months of negotiations. The American Federation of State, County and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The city of Portland is continuing negotiations with two major labor unions after both declared an impasse in late December, signaling a looming labor dispute. If an agreement ...

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 ...

Hundreds of Portland city employees will be required to return to working in-person full time by the spring, Mayor Keith Wilson said in an email Tuesday morning. This comes several weeks after ...

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

In the six months since Portland began to enforce its scaled-back homeless camping ban, police have arrested just three repeat violators, according to city officials. The disclosure came Tuesday ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - More than 1,000 city workers have reached a tentative agreement with the City of Portland, avoiding a strike that was approved earlier this week. Oregon AFSCME Local 189 ...

On the latest episode of “OPB Politics Now,” reporters Dirk VanderHart and Alex Zielinski discuss the fascinating start of the new era of governance in Portland City Hall. They talked about ...

If you’re an urban planning nerd, a lover of great cities, and/or you’re looking for reasons to be optimistic about the future of Portland, consider attending a special event Sunday that will give you ...

One of the first big issues that Portland’s 12-member City Council plans to confront this year is whether to increase their own office budgets and that of Mayor Keith Wilson by millions of dollars.

Models of historic and contemporary projects in Oregon’s largest city are the subject of an exhibition in Portland. (Courtesy DRAWINGS) The show gathers fifty models spread across two different ...