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Subheading: If the trend continues through 2030, the state could lose its recently added sixth U.S. House seat, a think tank says....

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“According to the presentation, the task force as of March 27 had seized 22.7 pounds of fentanyl and over 266,000 pills so far this year. That’s an increase from 17 pounds and 161,000 pills last year.”

That’s partly because of delays at the Multnomah County Elections Division and partly because the freshly drawn districts split up existing voting precincts.

Hot off the success of his melodrama May December, Portland auteur Todd Haynes is embarking on his next film: a detective movie starring Joaquin Phoenix that will shoot this summer. “It’s a love story between two men set in the ’30s that has explicit sexual content, or at least it challenges you with the sexual...

For decades Rachel Clark has managed the Goose Hollow Inn, the beloved pub her father founded in 1967.

It sent one family cat, Binx, into hiding for the next eight days—the family presumed he was dead until he surfaced out of the basement on Jan. 21.

Early this week, city, county and state officials all refused to answer a simple question: What was the address of the building on which they planned to jointly spend over $15 million to turn it into a new residential drug treatment center?

Thirty years ago, a battle-tested hero valiantly embarked on a brand-new journey. He had no superpowers, no lofty goals, no damsel to save from eternal distress—just a cup for a head and the drive to consume as much coffee as possible....

The Dec. 13 complaint casts new light on the 2022 closures, which were initially blamed on safety concerns.

“The internal investigation is open,” says PPB spokesman Mike Benner. “We’re in the middle of a disciplinary process and Chief [Bob] Day is evaluating options.”