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Public notice (closed): Opportunity to comment on GrayMar Environmental Services, LLC solid waste facility license application

May 1, 2025 8 a.m.

GrayMar Environmental Services, LLC applied for a new Metro solid waste facility license to receive and transfer industrial solid waste at its facility in Troutdale. To share your views, submit a comment by 5 p.m. on Friday, May 30, 2025.

Public notice (closed): Opportunity to comment on Ingenium Troutdale solid waste facility license application

May 1, 2025 8 a.m.

Ingenium Group, LLC applied for a new Metro solid waste facility license to receive and transfer non-hazardous industrial solid waste at its facility in Troutdale. To share your views, submit a comment by 5 p.m. on Friday, May 30, 2025.

Public notice (closed): Opportunity to comment on WasteXpress solid waste facility license application

May 1, 2025 8 a.m.

WasteXpress Environmental applied for a new Metro solid waste facility license to receive and transfer non-hazardous industrial solid waste at its facility in Portland. To share your views, submit a comment by 5 p.m. on Friday, May 30, 2025.

Public notice: Opportunity to comment on pending amendment to the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Plan

April 29, 2025 12:15 p.m.

Metro is in receipt of proposed Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Plan formal amendments. To share your views, comment by 5 p.m. on Friday, May 28. A final notice will not be published.

Public hearing notice: Comment on the 2028-30 Regional Flexible Funding Allocation process at JPACT

April 16, 2025 11:35 a.m.

Join the Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation (JPACT) meeting on Thursday, April 17th to share your feedback on transportation projects seeking federal funding. Projects will invest in roadways and trails and make it easier and safer to walk, bike and use transit.

Innovative affordable apartment community opens in Montavilla

April 14, 2025 5:14 p.m.

Apartment building courtyard with landscaping and stump seating and young trees.

Innovative affordable apartment community opens in Northeast Portland, bringing 137 homes to the Montavilla neighborhood with the help of funds from Metro's affordable housing bond and transit-oriented development program.

Public notice: Opportunity to comment on pending amendment to the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Plan

April 1, 2025 11:40 a.m.

Metro is in receipt of proposed Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Plan formal amendments. To share your views, comment by by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30. A final notice will not be published.

Read Our Big Backyard Spring 2025

March 28, 2025 10:29 a.m.

A view of a murky creek from the sidebar. Sparse trees and cloudy weather indicate it is late fall or winter. One the other side of the creek is a parking lot full of cars and a small, weathered dock.

Check out Metro's quarterly magazine to learn about Metro's collaboration with other agencies to get water flowing at Kellogg Creek, efforts are protecting nature in the region, a memorial at Lone Fir Cemetery's historic Chinese section, updates on the cleanup at Willamette Cove and more!

Public notice: Opportunity to comment on transportation projects submitted for the 2028-30 Regional Flexible Funding Allocation process

March 26, 2025 11:59 a.m.

Share your feedback on transportation projects seeking federal funding to invest in roadways and trails and make it easier and safer to walk, bike and use transit. Comment now through Wednesday, April 30.

Metro awards $750,000 to Portland Parks & Recreation to transform Tom McCall Waterfront Park

March 26, 2025 11:13 a.m.

A wideshot of a river with a person on the riverbank sitting under a tree.

The 2040 planning and development grant will support a design competition to create an outdoor hub for entertainment and cultural activities along the Willamette River.

Meet your neighbors: pond-breeding amphibians

By Katy Weil

March 21, 2025 11:46 a.m.

a small, bright-green frog with black stripes sits on a rock coated in brilliantly green moss

The greater Portland region is home to five species of native pond-breeding amphibians. Get to know them through the descriptions below — but please, not by trying to pick them up.

Read Our Big Backyard summer 2025

Public notice (closed): Opportunity to comment on GrayMar Environmental Services, LLC solid waste facility license application

Public notice (closed): Opportunity to comment on Ingenium Troutdale solid waste facility license application

Public notice (closed): Opportunity to comment on WasteXpress solid waste facility license application

Public notice: Opportunity to comment on pending amendment to the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Plan

Public hearing notice: Comment on the 2028-30 Regional Flexible Funding Allocation process at JPACT

Innovative affordable apartment community opens in Montavilla

Affordable housing advocate honored in naming of new apartment community

Battery basics: how to safely sort, store and dispose of common household batteries

Public notice: Opportunity to comment on pending amendment to the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Plan

Enter Our Big Backyard summer 2025 photo contest

Read Our Big Backyard Spring 2025

Public notice: Opportunity to comment on transportation projects submitted for the 2028-30 Regional Flexible Funding Allocation process

Metro awards $750,000 to Portland Parks & Recreation to transform Tom McCall Waterfront Park

More mud, less flood

Meet your neighbors: pond-breeding amphibians