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A candidate would have had to receive over 50% of the vote to win the seat outright.

Voters were asked whether to approve the measure to generate $70.5 million over four years for roads, sidewalks and crosswalks.

Mozyrsky, an administrative law judge, and Moyer, a Disability Rights Oregon policy director, were among five candidates running to replace Commissioner Sharon Meieran.

Starting July 1, the city will do a dry run of the new structure created by charter reform. Michael Jordan will be interim city administrator for the transition.

A candidate running for the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners is defending lucrative contracts awarded to her husband by a community organization they both oversee. Jessie Burke, owner of the Society Hotel in downtown Portland, and Posies Café in North Portland, is a Multnomah County Commissioner candidate, as well as the board chair of the Old Town Community Association (OTCA). Her husband, Jonathan Cohen, serves as the treasurer for OTCA’s board. Last February, the OTCA...

It's something the residents and businesses near 121st and Division have seen for years now: Homeless camps lining the street and spilling onto the sidewalk.Bri

Commissioner Rene Gonzalez called for ‘public order’ on his social media accounts Wednesday in response to protesters in opposition to the war in Gaza occupying Portland State’s Millard Library.

Her last job was at City of Beaverton and she's most experienced with water infrastructure.

PBOT's development review activities will be housed in the new bureau.

Portland no longer has an enforceable ban on public camping, and some city commissioners are eager to get one on the books – too eager, argued homeless advocates and some local civil rights attorneys during Wednesday evening’s city council session.