Committees of the new Portland City Council focusing on a range of topics met for the first time this week, launching an ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland City Council held a meeting Wednesday night to discuss the potential for increasing the city budget by up to $4.6 million. The council voted to pull that extra ...

The new committees will be where councilors craft a majority of their policy. The Portland City Council Wednesday night approved the formation of eight subcommittees, their topics and their members.

That includes the goal to remove barriers that have made City Hall feel ... heading to the full council. This is where the majority of public comment will be heard. Portland has eight committees ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland's new city council jumped into a long-running and contentious political battle on Tuesday: the future of Zenith Energy's fuel export terminal on the Willamette River.

"Defunded." "Not set up for success." Portland's city councilors had blunt words to describe the budget bestowed on them by the prior Council. The city’s new 12-person City Council voted ...

Pirtle-Guiney represents District 2 on city council, which includes most Northeast Portland neighborhoods west of Interstate 205. “If we don’t do that [work] well, I don’t know that ...