PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — During the November 2022 election, Portland-area voters approved a measure that will reform the city’s election system and form four new voting districts. The Independent ...

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 ...

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 ...

The city is amid a massive overhaul of its form of government and how it elects its leaders. That’s because Portlanders overwhelmingly passed a sweeping ballot measure last year that makes three ...

Three draft district map proposals based on Independent Districting Commission deliberations. (Maps via Maja Harris/Rose City Reform). Portland’s Independent Districting Commission (IDC) has selected ...

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 ...

If you use Apple devices and rely on a bicycle to get around Portland, we’ve got some good news. Apple Maps has just expanded its cycling directions feature to our wonderful city. Detailed cycling ...

Since the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that states would not be receiving funds for November food assistance, a number of Oregonians have looked for ways to help. Some local businesses and ...

Portland is having a midlife crisis. For much of the past decade, this city enjoyed an image with a skyward trajectory: attractive, clever, basking in the spotlight as national media spoke of our ...

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