The WNBA is headed back to Portland, with Oregon’s biggest city getting an expansion team that will begin play in 2026.

Portland Fire? Portland Roses? Portland Forest Dragons? Readers come up with their own ideas for WNBA team names.

Portland had a previous WNBA team, the Fire, which played for just two seasons and folded in 2002. It’s not yet decided if ...

The WNBA is expanding to Portland by granting the league’s 15th franchise to the city. The team, which was announced ...

Alex Bhathal and Lisa Bhathal Merage, the brother-sister duo who recently purchased the NWSL’s Portland Thorns, are the ...

Commissioner Cathy Engelbert had previously named Philadelphia as a potential expansion city. But with three new expansion ...

The Bhathal family, which also owns the Portland Thorns, pointed to the city's passionate support for women's sports as ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said the team’s return to Portland is a sign of the city’s “unequivocal love of women’s sports,” ...

Portland was awarded a WNBA expansion franchise Wednesday, which was announced early in the morning ahead of a mid-afternoon ...

BREAKING: The WNBA is officially returning to Portland. The league has announced the city will earn a new expansion franchise ...

The WNBA has awarded Portland a new franchise that will enter the league and begin to play in 2026. The team will be owned by ...