Portland’s billion-dollar climate action program is set to invest more than $64 million over the next five years in community-led projects that will help the city reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and advance the renewable energy transition. The Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability announced Tuesday that City Administrator Michael Jordan approved $64.4 million in...

The Oh Be Joyful Solar Project was recently completed near the entrance to Crested Butte. It can generate enough energy to power approximately 300 homes. In partnership with the Towns of Crested Butte and Mt. Crested Butte, the Crested Butte South Property Owners Association, Crested Butte Mountain Resort, the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory and the...

Two cannabis projects that generated stiff neighborhood opposition in the western Carpinteria Valley — a “grow” on Foothill Road that was in bankruptcy and a cannabis dispensary that never got off the ground on Santa Claus Lane — were quietly abandoned for good this fall. Island Breeze Farms, a cannabis greenhouse operation at 3376 Foothill...