The purple octopus that hung outside the Greek Cusina restaurant in downtown Portland became a city landmark. Fredrick D. Joe/The Oregonian (Fredrick D. Joe/The Oregonian) This story has been updated ...

— The city of Walla Walla sent a paint crew at dawn Thursday to paint over a purple octopus mural it said was an illegal sign for a toy store. After more than two years of court battles the octopus ...

Time ran out for the giant purple octopus mural Thursday morning in Walla Walla, Wash. By 7 a.m. PT, the giant sea creature that once blanketed the storefront of Inland Octopus, a toy shop on the town ...

What’s news in the Northwest today: WALLA WALLA, Wash. — A giant purple octopus is on the public comment agenda for today’s city council meeting in Walla Walla. It’s a mural that was painted over the ...

WALLA WALLA -- A court hearing has been set in the lawsuit filed by a downtown toy store owner who is trying to save his giant, purple octopus mural on constitutional grounds. The hearing before Walla ...

A Walla Walla County Superior Court judge is deciding whether a purple octopus mural over a downtown Walla Walla toy store is art or a commercial sign. The Union-Bulletin reports Judge Donald W.

Time ran out for the giant purple octopus mural Thursday morning in Walla Walla, Wash. By 7 a.m. PT, the giant sea creature that once blanketed the storefront of Inland Octopus, a toy shop on the town ...