Seattle’s model for public campaign financing, its proponents argue, places stronger safeguards around taxpayer dollars. That ...

Portland’s program works like this: Candidates who receive 250 or more donations qualify for public funds, multiplying each ...

The debate over whether to increase the Preschool for All tax, and by how much, rages on. At a Nov. 12 advisory committee ...

The national average for an emergency room stay at “high volume” hospitals is around three and a half hours. Stay times at ...

ADDRESS: 2706 NE 58th Ave. Tucked between an Ethiopian coffee shop, a Thai restaurant and the Rose City Park Methodist Church ...

On Nov. 6, the day after a national election that sent Donald Trump back to the White House, Elijah Graham and Owen King, who ...

The Lake Oswego Police Chief George Burke today told WW that his department is conducting a criminal investigation involving Melissa Fireside, a Lake Oswego businesswoman who defeated incumbent ...

Hear ye, hear ye! Willamette Week’s annual Holiday Shopper is here. Each year we compile locally sourced gift ideas all in ...

Multnomah County Circuit Judge Adrian Brown issued a judgment nullifying the fraudulent deed a California man named Silvestre ...

This lack of a release valve has fiscal consequences. As WW reported last year, state officials say Oregon’s prison population is aging at an “alarming rate,” leading to skyrocketing medical costs at ...

The long-running effort to bring Major League Baseball to Portland took a small step forward this week. The Portland Diamond Project, the group that’s been working on securing a stadium site and ...

Gov. Tina Kotek today said she’s calling the Legislature into a special session Dec. 12 to deal with a stack of unpaid bills ...