Top district officials took issue with the audit’s scope and findings, with PPS’ senior chief of operations disputing “the tenor of the report’s narrative and frequent implication of impropriety.”

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The climate crisis is upon us, and its impacts are both depressing and deeply harmful. Here in Portland, more and more of our summer days are spent avoiding wildfire smoke, extreme heat, or both. Even...

Mayor Keith Wilson and Councilor Steve Novick contributed $10,000 each from their office budgets.

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

Messages obtained by the Mercury contain a slew of offensive tropes sent during a council president election