“Folks just don’t want our community to be known as the city with a private lake whose own government spends funds to keep ...

The Lake Oswego City Council has voted against appealing a court ruling that mandates public access to Oswego Lake, ending a ...

Steele ruled in November that a city of Lake Oswego ordinance prohibiting public access to the lake through city parks was — at least for one of the parks — not reasonable. She followed that ...

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. — A Clackamas County judge has ... the 2012 ordinance in place for the other two of its three downtown parks but cannot enforce it for Millennium Plaza. It also orders the ...

Todd Prager was a planning commissioner for the city of Lake Oswego in 2011 when he discovered ... to the water from the three lakeside public parks. That’s when he decided to file a lawsuit.

That year, the Lake Oswego City Council voted to bar the public from accessing the water from three lakeshore city parks. (The vote was a reaction to reporting by WW’s then-Arts & Culture editor ...

Public access has long been nigh impossible at Oswego Lake, as private landowners surround nearly all of its 12-mile shoreline, while swim parks were open only to city residents. City officials ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The battle continues over who can have access to Oswego Lake after a Clackamas County judge ruled the city must now open the water way to the public. Issued on Monday ...

The City of Lake Oswego is considering how to move forward following a judge's decision that the public can access the lake, which has been private. The city has taken ...