The National Education Association's annual meeting is set to begin in Portland, featuring 7,000 educators from across the ...

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in cities across Oregon Saturday in a coordinated protest against the Trump administration on the president’s 79th birthday. The gatherings were part of more than 2 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Public Library Associations' National Conference has hit the Oregon Convention Center, marking the first large event to come to Portland since the start of the pandemic ...

Without a major convention center, I fear that Portland will continue the current path of lagging economic development, limited income growth for its residents and highly seasonal leisure tourism.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland was recently chosen by the National Education Association to host its annual conference in 2025. The convention, the city's largest ever, will be held at the Oregon ...

Portland's plans for a convention center hotel -- a legacy project eyed by politicians for 20 years -- are dead. Mayor Sam Adams, Metro Council President David Bragdon and Multnomah County ...

The idea to build a hotel to draw more and bigger conference crowds has been batted around for 20 years but seemed dead for good in September 2009. Now officials acknowledge they're talking about ...

Rep. Kyle Bailey wants to ask voters to weigh in on a bond question this November to build a $110 million convention center in the city 'to invest in our future.' Rep. Kyle Bailey, D-Gorham, who ...

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, Oregon Convention Center (OCC) announces the completion of a momentous $40 million renovation project — OCC's first large-scale ...

Though it won't be done until late 2019, the new Hyatt Regency is giving Travel Portland and others a new tool to bring bigger conventions to town. The Business Journals. Select a City ...

Large-scale conventions at the Oregon Convention Center are back after Covid shuttered them in 2020. More than 4,000 librarians will flock to Portland March 23-25 for the Public Library ...

There are never traffic backups in the protected bike lane on NE 1st next to the Convention Center! (Photo: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland) With vaccine eligibility ramping up again today, lots of folks ...