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Hardesty calls out ODOT, seeks city control of SE Powell, Local News, Portland local News, Breaking News alerts for Portland city.

Womans death renews calls for safety improvements along Powell Boulevard, Local News, Portland local News, Breaking News alerts for Portland city.

Downed trees all over Holly Hill were caused by heavy rain and strong winds. Residents say they’re grateful for their family’s safety.

The downtown Portland plaza, nicknamed "Paranoid Park," is catty-corner to the new Ritz-Carlton, which is set to open next July.

People can expect to pay more parking during big events at the Moda Center, Veterans Memorial Coliseum and Oregon Convention Center starting Sept. 9.

A new bus line along Southeast Division Street is almost ready to start running in Portland.

Longtime Oregon congressman Rep. Earl Blumenauer toured his namesake bridge before it opened to the public on Sunday.

People installed dozens of large troughs, or planters, between the sidewalk and the roadway over the weekend — seemingly to deter camping in that location.

They appeared at the end of March: Around 20 round cement planters, about two feet in circumference diameter and perhaps a foot off the ground, placed in a row along a two-block stretch of sidewalk the west side of SW Naito Parkway. This wouldn't have caught our attention if it weren't for their placement—directly under the Morrison Bridge, where there's absolutely zero sunlight. Not the ideal spot for the tiny shrubs stuck in the planters...

Portland property owners have been growing increasingly creative when it comes to blocking homeless campers from resting on the sidewalks adjacent to their properties. From giant concrete planters to piles of boulders to turning galvanized livestock troughs into sidewalk gardens. But, just when you think the city's passive NIMBYs have run out of ideas—allow me to introduce perhaps the most Portland form of "hostile architecture": bike racks. On Wednesday, a reader shared with...