Downtown News

The American Planning Association named Mill Avenue in Tempe one of the 10 Great Streets in America for 2008 at a ceremony early Wednesday morning.

Economy got you down? Don't know where your next paycheck is coming from? Never fear, reality television is here to save your ass.

Tonight in southeast Portland, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance will toast another successful Bike Commute Challenge .

The American Planning Association announced today the country's 10 Great Neighborhoods, 10 Great Streets and 10 Great Public Spaces that have been singled out for 2008 through the organization ' s Great Places ...

Prof. Ruth Anne Robbin s has announced the second Applied Storytelling Conference, Once Upon a Legal Time, Chapter Two: Applied Storytelling in Law will be held July 22-24, 2009 at Lewis & Clark Law School in ...

The dipping dollar is no reason to abstain from a fabulous vacation. You may even discover a great new destination full of bang for your buck! There's no need to cancel the vacation because the dollar is ...

Since hitting the wrong side of 40, I've become very sensitive to all things age-related. Still, it brought on a wave of nostalgia for a time when wearing little more than a waffle on my head was the best way ...

Think you could be the next Food Network star ? You have until Oct. 31 to send in a 3-minute audition video.

Food Network will soon be holding auditions for the fifth season of its highly popular competitive reality series, The Next Food Network Star .

Seven-year-old Tanner Ott runs with Olympian track athlete Michael Johnson at the Michael Johnson Track at the Nike World Headquarters during the Youth Games Special Olympics Oregon event.

The start area of the 2007 Portland Marathon. If you're staying at the Portland Marathon Headquarters Hotel--the Hilton Portland --you're not even a quarter mile away from the starting line.

Two of Portland's signature cultures -- books and bikes -- came together today as the city expanded into downtown with its special bike parking corrals.

Fifth Avenue between Washington and Alder streets in downtown Portland are covered with grass and changed into a lawn for one day.

Locally based private equity firm ScanlanKemperBard Cos. on Friday sold three historic office buildings in the heart of Downtown Portland for $63 million, or $222 per sf.

This Saturday, hopeful contestants from across the country who "proudly represent the large and looming underbelly of middle America" will compete in Portland's eighth annual Miss White Trash Pageant.

The Broadway opened eight years ago as a food market, deli and wine shop. Five years ago they did away with the food market, and last week they closed the deli.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Sept. 8, 2008 - Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH, Oregon and Southwest Washington's local SIGGRAPH chapter, today announced that renowned visual consultant Bruce Block will address the Portland community ...

Can the revitalization of Downtown North co-exist with a significant expansion of homeless services in the North Broadway area? That question is at the heart of Rose Kennedy's latest piece in the Metro Pulse.

Patti Webb, right, talks to incoming McMinnville Downtown Association Manager Kris Gullo about the holiday events that the MDA coordinates.

Morgans New York has just reopened with a new look from designer AndrA©e Putman.