Why do signs obstruct sidewalks on every block in downtown Portland?

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) Cedric Coward scored 23 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, Isaiah Watts came off the bench to score 20, and Washington State beat Portland State 100-92, earning David Riley a victory in his debut as the Cougars head coach. Coward made 7 of 12 shots from the floor with three 3-pointers and 6 of 7 free throws for Washington State to lead six players in double figures. Watt...

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Anfernee Simons scored 24 points, Deandre Ayton had 19 points and 13 rebounds and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the injury-depleted New Orleans Pelicans 118-100 on Monday night.

A Biddeford man and woman were sentenced Nov. 1 in U.S. District Court in Portland for their roles in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy in southern Maine. U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. sentenced Michael Bolster, 49, to a total of 72 months in prison on one count of conspiring to distribute fentanyl and two […]

The council on Monday passed a moratorium for 180 days, starting in a month, while a panel studies whether hoteliers are shouldering enough responsibility to build affordable housing.

The councilors unanimously approved the years-in-the-making effort to redraw the city's land use ordinance for the first time since the 1970s.

This CT high school football team has won some close ones in its last few games to stay in the middle of the playoff race.

The 78-year-old woman was stopped by an ambulance, which then brought her to Mercy Hospital, where she was initially trying to go.

Two Portland City Councilors are seeking to put a 180-day prohibition on the approval of new hotel projects in the city in order to prevent what they call the “serious public harm” posed by continued hotel development. The proposed order, sponsored by Councilors Kate Sykes and Pious Ali, would place a 180-day moratorium on new [...]The post

Mercy Hospital posthumously bestowed on philanthropist Maddy Corson its award recognizing outstanding community support. The annual Forsley Award is named in honor of longtime Garys House champion, Fred Forsley. It recognizes a remarkable leader and advocate who works to make the Greater Portland community better for all, with a special focus on neighbors in need. […]

The popular seasonal tours of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House are based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Haunted Houses," and focus on those who lived and died in the Portland landmark.

While looking for a column to begin the month of November, I was scrolling through the lineup of acts coming into one of my favorite listening rooms, One Longfellow Square, and stopped on one for the 14th of that month: Alisa Amador, which will also be a standing-room-only show (with limited seats available for those […]

Last week, a panel of local, state and federal representatives answered questions from 75 ESOL students at Portland Adult Education.

A new South Portland restaurant proves more is more when it comes to Mediterranean options.

When the closures were announced in August, families were told their kids could attend after-school programming at the club's central location on Cumberland Avenue, but some families have opted not to.

Football postseason also under way.

Could proposed wind farm impact fishermen’s livelihoods? On Oct. 29, a lengthy article was reprinted in The Times Record from the Portland Press Herald on proposed wind farms in Casco Bay. The article had only one small quote from the New England Stewardship Association stating that the wind farm will “threaten mariners (fishermen) and the […]

Businesses in deep blue Portland, Oregon and Washington, DC, are boarding up in preparation for potential unrest ahead of Election Day.The post Portland, D.C. Businesses Board up in Preparation for Election Day Unrest appeared first on

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Dante Chachere threw a touchdown pass and ran for four TDs to help Portland State beat Sacramento State 58-38. Delon Thompson scored on 1-yard run with 4:17 left in the third quarter and Chachere scrambled for a 54-yard touchdown that made it 37-24 less than 2 minutes later and the Vikings led the rest of the way. Chachere added TD runs of 27, 13 and 2 yards. He fini...