News

We asked the biggest recipients of county dollars how they feel about disclosing their meetings with public officials.
A new proposal would diminish the chair’s unilateral authority to control the board agenda, declare a public meeting over.
Multnomah County’s Preschool for All, which seeks to guarantee tuition-free child care to every preschooler in the county by ...
Damariea R. Harris was arrested in Vancouver, Washington, two weeks after a shooting outside The Venue Gentleman’s Club on ...
County leaders announced that 3,800 children will be served through the free education initiative in the next school year.
Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson and Commissioner Julia Brim-Edwards are introducing a proposal to “kick-start” ...
Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez wants the county to fund 26 new positions in his office despite budget woes ...
Many employees hold dismal opinions of Multnomah County’s ability to foster an ethical work environment, according to a ...
Market Street Shelter in Southeast Portland says it could close by June 30 if Multnomah County's homeless services department ...
Multnomah County is expanding its Preschool for All program. 16-hundred new seats will be added for the 2025-2026 school year. The program is funded by a tax on high income earners ...
Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB The news of a $104 million deficit in Multnomah County’s homeless services budget shocked fellow metro-area government leaders last month. While that number has been ...
Today, nearly halfway between its passage at the ballot box and its deadline to reach universality in 2030, Multnomah ...