Elana Pirtle-Guiney will serve as president of the freshly sworn-in 12-member Portland City Council. She was elected by a 7-5 ...

In the six months since Portland began to enforce its scaled-back homeless camping ban, police have arrested just three ...

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A proposal filed on Tuesday by Portland City Council president Elana Pirtle-Guiney to increase the budgets of the new ...

The council vote was initially split 6-6 between Candace Avalos and Olivia Clark. Pirtle-Guiney was floated as an alternative and ultimately won 7-5.

In a historic day at Portland City Hall on Thursday, the 12 members of the newly expanded City Council elected Elana ...

Elana Pirtle-Guiney was elected to the role of Council President by the Portland City Council, allowing her to direct the ...

Pirtle-Guiney, a longtime labor union leader and former governor’s adviser, secured the coveted post over racial justice ...

Portland’s brand-new city council elected its first leader Thursday in a vote that previewed the political dividing lines to come and just how complicated winning a majority might be in this new form ...

Because with 12 members of council, we could be in for a lot of tie votes. Yesterday’s 6-6 deadlock was first between Councilor Candace Avalos (D1) and Councilor Olivia Clark (D4). This gave us our ...