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A proposal to raise much-needed research money for Oregon’s fast-growing hemp industry failed to pass muster during the legislative session that just ended, but supporters say it will likely r…

A proposal to streamline ditch-cleaning regulations got in just under the wire to win approval from Oregon lawmakers, though farmers will likely wait another year to use the program.

BAKER CITY — Raynmon Haze Garcia, the 21-year-old man who set the fire that destroyed a block of historic buildings in Huntington in late May, pleaded guilty to arson and reckless burning on T…

U.S. District Judge Michael Simon has ruled environmental groups are likely to prevail in their claim that former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke improperly renewed a grazing permit lost by Dwig…

The Pacific Ocean along the equator cooled in June and is expected to be at normal temperatures in a month or two, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday.

The number of licensed hemp farmers in Washington has more than doubled since May, according to the state Department of Agriculture.

The Grouse Flats wolfpack in southeast Washington killed a calf in a 160-acre fenced pasture, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said today.

A short spell of unseasonable rain in early July isn’t expected to diminish yields for Oregon seed farmers during this summer’s harvest — unless it persists.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two representatives of Oregon’s #TimberUnity movement were at the White House Monday, where they had been invited to hear President Donald Trump deliver remarks on “America’…

SALEM — Oregonians, say goodbye to your Washington sales tax break — at least as you’ve come to know it.

ROSEBURG — A conservation group in Southern Oregon has launched a crowd-funding campaign to help build a tall fence around a local ranch. Eight cows and two dogs at Jackson County’s Mill-Mar R…

SALEM — Over the past two years, a Republican legislator once an ally of Democrats has become a one-man force waging war against his colleagues to the left.

SALEM — When Democrats won a supermajority in the Oregon Legislature last November, it seemed they had a clear path ahead to combat global warming, enact gun control and pursue other liberal goals.

A new area of wolf activity has been designated for the Northside group of wolves in Grant County.

SALEM — Fire season is now officially in effect on all Oregon Department of Forestry-protected lands.

SALEM — The highly public downfall of a legislative plan to cap the state’s greenhouse gas emissions cast a long shadow over the last two weeks of the legislative session.

SALEM — The debate on climate change appears to have deepened the gap between the liberal politics of Portland and Eugene and the conservative politics of rural areas with natural resource and…

SALEM — Oregon lawmakers concluded their work for the year on Sunday, marking the close of the most remarkable and contentious legislative sessions in modern memory.

SALEM — The penultimate day of the 2019 Legislature was a busy one.

SALEM — Enough Oregon Republican senators will return to the Capitol for the chamber to do business Saturday.

PORTLAND — After hours of testimony, a federal judge in Portland extended a temporary restraining order as he considers whether or not to prevent a controversial Harney County ranching family …

SALEM — The longest serving Senate president in Oregon history greeted a half-empty legislative chamber on the first day of the Republican walkout last week.

SALEM — The days before the Oregon Legislature adjourns are typically chaotic affairs, with lawmakers rushing to pass bills in time to meet the constitutional deadline.

SALEM — Loggers and logging trucks made their way from the fairgrounds in Salem to the Capitol on Thursday morning to protest two bills — House Bills 2020 and 2007.

SALEM — The head of Oregon’s embattled child welfare agency is retiring — effectively immediately and with an apparent push from the governor.

BOARDMAN — Oregon U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley will hold a town hall in Morrow County on Saturday, July 6.

BAKER CITY — The Baker City Fire Department on Monday closed the Super 8 motel and Motel 6 in Baker City after inspectors found the fire alarm systems had been intentionally disabled at both m…

It will be easier to build a brewery but harder to organize an outdoor festival on Oregon farmland under land use changes the Legislature approved in 2019.

PORTLAND — The divide in Oregon between the state's liberal cities and its conservative and economically depressed rural areas has made it fertile ground for the political crisis unfolding ove…

CANYONVILLE, Ore. — When governmental regulations are being considered regarding any number of issues, “we need to make ourselves part of the discussion,” said Ethan Lane.

SALEM — Seven minutes.

New plan may leave out wilderness safeguards

COQUILLE — Early this past June, Coos County Sheriff Craig Zanni was in his Coquille office fielding an email from a sovereign citizen. The sender was claiming that the Oregon state government…