PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — As the City of Portland prepares to change its form of government, locals are getting the chance to shape how it will look. After hundreds of submissions, public testimony, and ...

Maybe you've been around here long enough to remember what downtown Portland looked like in the 1970s, when New York Times critic Ada Louise Huxtable decried "the scattered, bomb-site look of downtown ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — During last fall’s local elections, Portlanders voted to change the city’s form of government, and along with that change came new voting districts. On Wednesday, the city’s ...

For more than 100 years, all the members of Portland’s City Council have been elected citywide. That is about to change, after voters passed a major overhaul to the city charter last November. The ...

For more than a hundred years, all the members of Portland’s city council have been elected citywide. That’s about to change after voters passed a major overhaul to the city charter last November. The ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — When Portlanders endorsed an overhaul of the city's form of government in November, they knew they were voting to divide the city into four electoral districts, but they didn't yet ...

The city of Portland took a small yet significant step this week toward reshaping the city’s new form of government and election system, as approved by voters last fall. Members of the citizen-led ...

This remarkable map was first printed in 1896 (that’s not a typo) and was endorsed by the Multnomah Wheelmen cycling club. It was sold at the Oregon Historical Society gift store in the 1970s and then ...

To assess how gentrification has reshaped urban neighborhoods, Governing analyzed demographic data for the nation’s 50 most populous cities. Changes in several measures, described below, were ...