Clackamas County Chair Charlotte Lehan says the time is right to study transportation and governance issues for the area near Stafford. Metro still looking at an urban growth boundary expansion in 2011.

Hearing on House Bill 3438 has no dialogue from legislators, but plenty of testimony against Metro's planning directives. Letter writers and Metro Council President Tom Hughes defend the agency, saying many of those directives are driven by state law.

Citing "constitutional problems," Transportation committee co-chair says the bill won't be heard.

With the goal of tracking the region's social, economic and environmental well-being, the Greater Portland-Vancouver Indicators uses data from nine categories to tell the story of the region. On Friday, April 8, the public will have an opportunity to learn how charting the progress of the region through indicators can help engage leaders, align partners, inspire action and increase general awareness of the region’s well-being.

Kathryn Harrington's District 4 needs to shrink, Carlotta Collette's District 2 must grow. Also, council discusses whether search for COO should be local or national.

California condors at the Oregon Zoo’s Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conservation laid 10 eggs this breeding season, the most in the program’s seven-year history. Seven of the 10 are fertile, including the heaviest egg in the history of the zoo's condor program: an 11½ ounce giant. The condors started laying eggs in late January and finished mid-March. The first eggs are expected to hatch before the end of the month. Two dozen healthy chicks have hatched at the center since the program began in 2003, and 17 Oregon Zoo-reared birds have gone out to field pens, with most released to the wild.

March 15 was Michael Jordan's last day at the helm of Portland's regional government, an eight year stretch that saw the agency redefine its mission and the role between its staff and elected officials.

Metro Council President Tom Hughes says charging stations, low carbon homes were the highlights of a job recruitment trip to Japan.