Portlanders now know the probable winners of a dozen seats on the 2025 City Council. It’s a diverse group. The 12 include ...

Hindsight is 20/20. Looking into the future? That’s 50/50. To celebrate Willamette Week’s 50th anniversary, we decided to ...

Saint Jack. Lardo. Ox. XLB. Pok Pok. What do these iconic Portland hot spots have in common? They’re just a few of the 60 ...

The origin of Powell’s Books is a tale of two cities—Portland and Chicago. In 1970, Michael Powell was a graduate student at ...

Before it became Portland’s swankiest urban neighborhood, the Pearl District was a forlorn, dusty old railyard bisected by an ...

For most of the 20th century, doctors treated cancer by hitting it with everything they had. Radical surgery, high-dose ...

For the past 50 years, civil rights and social justice leader Kathleen Saadat has advocated for women, people of color, ...

“One of the things that I love about Portland is that three friends with an idea can make something happen,” says Craig ...

One of the first (of many) mistakes I made as a young WW staffer in the early ‘90s was calling Will Vinton the winner of ...

Portland has the ninth-largest Native American community of any city in the nation, but none of its members had ever been ...

Rex Burkholder recalls a simple motivation for co-founding the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. “I got tired of thinking I ...

Mike and Brian McMenamin had a simple idea: Every place in Oregon would be better with a beer. Cinemas. Schools. Churches.