Good journalism can change the world. Ours didn’t. But it did change Portland, little by little, thanks to WW reporters who ...

Just two weeks after this cover story, the two hospital giants announced that the yearslong attempt to broker a deal was off.

If Preschool for All needs to serve less kids than anticipated, a scheduled tax increase might be less paramount than ...

And in the message transcripts themselves, you feel how the new councilors banter, talk shit, strategize and learn the ...

Willamette Week is in the middle of our most important annual fundraiser. As a local independent news outlet, we need your ...

The “OG SantaCon” that’s was listed in your Dec. 17 Get Busy section is not the Portland SantaCon that was started in 1996 by ...

Critics of city and county policy say Portland and Multnomah County have become a doughnut-hole-like dead zone in the middle ...

A group of striking medical workers rejected a tentative labor agreement with Legacy Health, their union announced Saturday.

To end 2025, we assigned each reporter in the WW newsroom to pick two stories by a colleague that stood out in 2025. We then ...

When the year began, we penciled into our publication calendar the idea to finish 2025 by naming a Portlander of the Year. By ...

At WW, we’ve decided it’s the term of the year. In the strictest definition, a doom loop starts when remote work frees people ...

Anthony Effinger writes about the intersection of government, business and non-profit organizations for Willamette Week. A ...