In the six months since Portland began to enforce its scaled-back homeless camping ban, police have arrested just three ...

A proposal filed on Tuesday by Portland City Council president Elana Pirtle-Guiney to increase the budgets of the new ...

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Elana Pirtle-Guiney will serve as president of the freshly sworn-in 12-member Portland City Council. She was elected by a 7-5 ...

In a historic day at Portland City Hall on Thursday, the 12 members of the newly expanded City Council elected Elana ...

Portland’s new 12-member City Council elected Councilor Elana Pirtle-Guiney to serve as the body’s president during its ...

The council vote was initially split 6-6 between Candace Avalos and Olivia Clark. Pirtle-Guiney was floated as an alternative ...

Elana Pirtle-Guiney was elected to the role of Council President by the Portland City Council, allowing her to direct the ...

Portland’s brand-new city council elected its first leader Thursday in a vote that previewed the political dividing lines to come and just how complicated winning a majority might be in this new form ...

Thursday was the first ever meeting of Portland’s new, 12-member City Council. While all the eyes and headlines were on the ...

The sweeping makeover turns Portland’s day-to-day government operations over to a city administrator chosen by the mayor and ...