Portland firefighters and the Portland Bureau of Transportation ran an evacuation exercise of the Portland aerial tram. Employees were "mock-rescued” by Portland Fire and Rescue crews.

The closure, which runs from Thursday night to Tuesday morning, will allow crews to shorten the tram’s haul rope ... efforts to reinforce Portland’s Burnside Bridge have been delayed.

It is a five-phase initiative designed to upgrade electrical transmission capacity across Portland. The current phase, phase 3, would add a new quarter-mile section of transmission line along the ...