On Nov. 11, House Minority Leader Jeff Helfrich (R-Hood River) sent out an announcement that he was stepping down as leader ...

Nearly 100 candidates ran for Portland City Council this year. By the end of this week, we should know for certain who the 12 ...

BRENDAN FINN TO JOIN MULTNOMAH COUNTY: Gresham City Councilor Vince Jones-Dixon, who won the Multnomah County Commissioner ...

Portlanders now know the probable winners of a dozen seats on the 2025 City Council. It’s a diverse group. The 12 include ...

Hindsight is 20/20. Looking into the future? That’s 50/50. To celebrate Willamette Week’s 50th anniversary, we decided to ...

Saint Jack. Lardo. Ox. XLB. Pok Pok. What do these iconic Portland hot spots have in common? They’re just a few of the 60 ...

For most of the 20th century, doctors treated cancer by hitting it with everything they had. Radical surgery, high-dose ...

More than 10,000 people gathered when the square opened on April 6, 1984. Lindberg considers it one of the city’s most ...

The origin of Powell’s Books is a tale of two cities—Portland and Chicago. In 1970, Michael Powell was a graduate student at ...

Before it became Portland’s swankiest urban neighborhood, the Pearl District was a forlorn, dusty old railyard bisected by an ...

For the past 50 years, civil rights and social justice leader Kathleen Saadat has advocated for women, people of color, ...

Rex Burkholder recalls a simple motivation for co-founding the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. “I got tired of thinking I ...