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Environmental activists climb the Morrison Bridge to protest another bridge project—the Columbia River Crossing freeway expansion.
Gas tax revenues are $1 million short for the city, leaving the Portland Department of Transportation strapped for cash.
City council approves a Columbia River Crossing proposal—with strict conditions.
Cabbies allege there’s a “racket” involving hotel bellhops and town-car drivers.
NO CHARGE The district attorney’s office has decided not to prosecute a sheriff’s deputy for his alleged role in having coerced one jail inmate to stab another in the eye with a pencil. Deputy District Attorney Josh Lamborn made the decision not to prosecute late last week, after reviewing an internal sheriff’s office investigation into […]
A man driving a gray Toyota pickup truck seems frantic; veering in and out of lanes trying to pass other traffic on the Interstate Bridge. His furtive moves don’t do him much good—moments later, as we crest the green steel bridge headed south into Portland, we’re greeted with flickering brake lights. Traffic slows to a […]
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