The battle over whether to keep the Clackamas County city of Damascus incorporated or dissolve it continues. Gov. Kate Brown signed Oregon Senate Bill 226 into law last month, looking to officially ...

Oregon’s most reluctant city is back -- despite years of desperately trying to disband. The Oregon Court of Appeals released an opinion Wednesday three years after Damascus disincorporated to say that ...

Only twice in the past 34 years has a new city been formed in Oregon. It's rarer yet for a city to dissolve itself. Disincorporations have occurred a grand total of three times since the state was ...

Damascus is a Census-designated place in Clackamas County, Oregon, with a population of 12,024. According to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, 81.90% of residents identify as ...

The fate of a small Oregon city hangs in the balance, as part of a flurry of bills that flew through the Oregon Legislature late last month but await final approval by Gov. Kate Brown. Senate Bill 226 ...

For much of its nearly decade-long existence as a city, Damascus has been at war with itself. Even before voters in 2004 made Damascus Oregon’s first new city in 22 years, battle lines were being ...

DAMASCUS, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Transportation and Clackamas County will deploy an emergency bridge typically used by the military to help a neighborhood affected by a large sinkhole.

A state hearings officer has started reviewing arguments to determine what should happen to a city that has failed to follow Oregon’s land-use laws. Oregon’s Department of Land Conservation and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTV) —A Damascus, Oregon woman was arraigned in federal court Monday after she was indicted for filing 20 fraudulent small claims in circuit courts throughout Oregon and receiving at ...

DAMASCUS, Ore. — For the last year and a half, a Damascus family has been battling with a difficult cancer diagnosis in their family. Their youngest son Wesley Strobel, who is now seven, is undergoing ...