Hindsight is 20/20. Looking into the future? That’s 50/50. To celebrate Willamette Week’s 50th anniversary, we decided to ...

Portlanders now know the probable winners of a dozen seats on the 2025 City Council. It’s a diverse group. The 12 include ...

Portland has the ninth-largest Native American community of any city in the nation, but none of its members had ever been ...

For far too long, Portland wasn’t known for its women’s sports. The Portland Fire played just three seasons in the WNBA. The ...

The name is everywhere: Schnitzer Steel. Schnitzer Hall. Schnitzer Properties. Patriarch Sam Schnitzer fled from Ukraine to ...

The history of the Portland Trail Blazers is the same story, told fresh to each generation. A singular talent arrives in town ...

A strip club torn down to make way for community housing. A landfill that became a park. And a nonprofit that shows what can ...

For most of the 20th century, doctors treated cancer by hitting it with everything they had. Radical surgery, high-dose ...

Saint Jack. Lardo. Ox. XLB. Pok Pok. What do these iconic Portland hot spots have in common? They’re just a few of the 60 ...

More than 10,000 people gathered when the square opened on April 6, 1984. Lindberg considers it one of the city’s most ...

Before it became Portland’s swankiest urban neighborhood, the Pearl District was a forlorn, dusty old railyard bisected by an ...

Rex Burkholder recalls a simple motivation for co-founding the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. “I got tired of thinking I ...