A woman who claimed she was engaged in “passive resistance” when she refused to show proof of her train fare and kept walking after a police officer ordered her to stop was properly convicted of interfering with a police officer, an appeals court in Oregon ruled, finding that “walking away is active, not passive, conduct.”
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Oregon’s safe gun storage bill is now on Democratic Governor Kate Brown’s desk and would ban all firearms from the Capitol following armed protesters who stormed the building in December.
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A plan to reduce water allocated to farmers, ranchers and flows for helping endangered fish in the Pacific Northwest has left both the agricultural industry and conservationists unsatisfied.
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For the first time in 20 years, it’s possible that the 1,400 irrigators who have farmed for generations on 225,000 acres of reclaimed farmland will get no water at all.
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Supporters of Greater Idaho want freedom from the “tyranny” of Oregon’s government.
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A hard-won plan to reopen Oregon schools pleases few — and much of the in-person time remaining this year is likely to be filled with standardized testing.
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Sea lions piled atop the docks of a small town 60 miles from the ocean – an early sign that this year will again be marked by the animals’ outsize appetite for endangered fish, and the first year fishery managers have the authority to kill them in large numbers.
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A relocation program will seek to introduce the California condor, which only had a population of 23 in the late 1980s, to the Pacific Northwest in a bid to restore the bird to its ancient grounds.
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A federal judge affirmed dismissal of a lawsuit in which Oregon ranchers sued to prevent the Klamath Tribes from exercising their superior water rights that interfere with irrigation of the ranchers’ lands. The tribes have preexisting authority to control their water rights under an 1864 treaty with the U.S. government.
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The Ninth Circuit will decide if local zoning rules should govern an already-completed railroad expansion in the Columbia River Gorge.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reconsider a rule that would have shaved off 3.5 million acres from habitat protections for the endangered northern spotted owl.
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A major ice storm knocked out electricity for more than 730,000 homes in Oregon — some for nearly a week.
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Jordan Cove can’t skirt the permits Oregon denied, the federal government affirmed Monday.
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The Nineteenth Century gold mine that sparked a 2015 militia standoff is now the subject of a federal lawsuit. On Wednesday, a judge heard arguments from miners and the government on cross motions to dismiss.
Read moreThe owners of an organic produce farm were properly awarded enhanced damages in their suit against the owners of a neighboring farm, an appeals court in Oregon ruled. The plaintiffs’ newly planted crop of organic salad plants was damaged when the defendants’ cows escaped from their enclosure and trampled and defecated on the plants.
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In its final moments Wednesday, the Trump administration granted two 10-year grazing permits to the father-son duo whose convictions and imprisonment for setting fires on public lands gave rise to the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon.
Read moreOregon will still get to weigh in on water pollution a proposed natural gas pipeline could cause — a significant setback for a project that tribal nations, environmentalists and local landowners have fought for over a decade.
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A car thief who found a toddler in the backseat of a stolen vehicle drove back and chastised the mother for leaving the child unattended before taking off again, police in Oregon said.
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Far-right demonstrators swarmed into Oregon’s Capitol last month, as legislators gathered for a contentious special session. New video shows a Republican lawmaker opened a locked door to let them in.
Read moreA federal court in Oregon refused to grant a temporary injunction to the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association in its suit challenging a Nov. 13 order restricting certain businesses, including prohibiting on-premises consumption of food or drinks for two weeks. The court recognized the “significant hardship” that businesses have endured during the pandemic but “the balance of equities weighs heavily in favor” of the state.
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