What unearthing odd discoveries tells us about Portland’s past
Police get up to 12 calls a year from people who think they've discovered human remains, only to find out later their digs ...
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Escape Portland's Big City Bustle At An Authentic Chinese Garden Often Called A 'Creative Wonder'
In downtown Portland, a Suzhou-style garden features hundreds of blooms and plants native to China, as well as traditional ...
Sheetz collaborates with Fortnite on playable map, contest with $25K in prize money
You can already go on a "Sheetz run" in real life and earn points using the convenience chain's rewards program. But savvy Fortnite players will soon be able to go on a virtual Sheetz run and compete ...
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High Taxes Are Hurting Portland Job Growth and Prodding Wealthy People to Leave, Report Says
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 ...
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New Soft Shoe Celebrates a Decade of Gram Parsons Music at Forest City Brewery
It’s hard to believe that a small band of top Cleveland musicians has been playing as the New Soft Shoe, a Gram Parsons cover band ... They’ve now moved their act to the Waldorf Hall at Ohio City’s ...
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Portland City Council lays groundwork for increasing city budget by $4.6 million via contingency funds
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 ...
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North Korea reopens border city to tourism
Tour operators said Thursday that North Korea had reopened a border city to foreign tourists, five years after Pyongyang sealed its frontiers in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. North Korea shut ...
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Portland City Council greenlights $4.6M boost for council, mayoral budgets as deep cuts loom
The Portland City Council approved a measure Wednesday to increase their own office budgets and that of Mayor Keith Wilson by millions of dollars amid a growing financial shortfall for the city ...
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Portland City Council Increases Its Staffing Budget by $4.6 Million
A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the Government Transition Advisory Committee's Council staffing recommendations. The Mercury regrets the error ...
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Portland City Council approves plan to increase staff for council, mayor
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 ...
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GTA 6 map: Vice City setting and mapping project explained
The days of Tommy Vercetti are long gone and we'll be loading into a reimagined Vice City as Lucia. With the anticipated release date expected any day now, information on the map and its size won ...
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Portland, Oregon
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 ...