Willamette Week's picks for the incredibly hard to shop for people in your gift-giving social circle. Stick to the basics and give them things they have no excuse not to use.

Willamette Week's annual gifting guide is curated with care, to make your shopping easy and meaningful. We hope it inspires ...

Currently, only the 285 OLCC-chartered state liquor stores are allowed to sell spirit-based canned cocktails. While alcohol ...

The bike bus concept is gaining in popularity, and Portland is now home to about 25 bike buses. This is largely thanks to Sam ...

Preschool for All is sitting on a lot of money. So it might come as a surprise that the people monitoring the program are ...

Portland Public Schools’ teachers levy collected almost $5 million less than expected this year, the district’s chief ...

Rent costs Lane County just $577,304 a year, but the rooms do something a $3.2 million deflection center can’t: house people ...

Rogue Ales & Spirits and its subsidiaries filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy Monday. Earlier this month, the storied brewery ...

An initiative petition aimed for the November 2026 ballot seeks to let Portlanders decide where millions of the city’s budget is spent every year. If passed, the measure would set aside an amount ...

As of now, people picked up for controlled substances aren’t charged or reported to the D.A.’s office. Nathan Vasquez wants ...

Oregon-raised historian Marc James Carpenter’s book reveals how misunderstood former Governor Joseph Lane’s legacy was even ...

Two days after the NWSL championship match—and just over a week after the Portland Thorns bowed out in the semifinals—the ...