The City Council’s Public Safety, Health and Human Services Committee on Tuesday will take up a task force’s recommendations for improving the city’s housing inspection program. The panel could vote to recommend changes to the full council. Here are some of the top recommendations: • Create a new housing safety office to coordinate inspections between different city […]

The group announces it will launch a petition and referendum effort to set the minimum wage at twice the current state minimum wage.

But advocates say mental illness is often the reason the money isn’t tapped by the homeless, and Portland officials say they don’t check financial eligibility under a practice approved long ago by the state.

The state sampling of homeless facilities questions city practices in determining financial eligibility, as the two sides continue to battle over General Assistance levels.

The excursion railway plans to move its operations to Gray to make way for redevelopment of the city’s eastern waterfront.