A tiny fish native to remote waterways in Oregon has been removed from the federal list of endangered species after decades of work to recover and restore the fish’s habitat, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Thursday.
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Oregon Governor Kate Brown appointed the state’s first public records advocate in 2018 as part of a campaign to improve transparency, but her office stymied the chance of that happening, according to advocate Ginger McCall, who said in her resignation letter Monday that she was pressured to act secretly in the governor’s best interests.
Read moreU.S. Senator Ron Wyden has called for a federal investigation into tactics used by a Canadian pipeline company working to secure the rights to build a natural gas pipeline in rural southern Oregon, after elderly landowners claimed the company harassed them and trespassed on their land.
Read moreThe sheriff of a remote Oregon county closed an investigation Wednesday that began when local officials accused newspaper reporters of harassment for emailing them after office hours.
Read moreFour Oregon dairy farmers filed a class action against the Tillamook County Creamery Association, claiming it sells dairy products through false claims that they are sourced from small farms in Tillamook County.
Read moreThe expected melee between extreme right wing protesters and antifascist counter-demonstrators didn’t fully materialize Saturday, resolving with a handful of scattered arrests as far right organizers in town from Utah and Florida called the rally “a success” while retreating to drink beer at a barbecue.
Read moreThe risk of wildfire has dramatically increased in the west, and most of that increase is because of humans. But experts told utilities commissioners Friday that presents a silver lining: problems caused by people can also be solved by them.
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Experts say it’s only a matter of time before a shift in a major fault line off the Oregon coast causes a massive earthquake that generates a tsunami as much as seven stories tall. Yet workers at Yaquina Bay are building an ocean studies building smack in the middle of a tsunami zone.
Read moreAfter a rare live stranding, officials euthanized a beached humpback whale Thursday after he was unable to ride three successive high tides back out to sea.
Read moreOregon Governor Kate Brown signed a bill Friday that environmentalists say will weaken protections of wetlands and intermittent streams, reversing course after announcing on Monday that she would likely veto the controversial bill.
Read moreA federal judge ordered the Trump administration to immediately release law enforcement grants to Oregon without conditioning the money on its demand that the state violate voter-approved sanctuary laws by handing undocumented immigrants over to the Department of Homeland Security.
Read moreSingle-family zoning is a thing of the past in Oregon, the first state in the nation to require cities with more than 10,000 people to allow duplexes in neighborhoods that were previously zoned for only one home per lot.
Read moreOregon will soon have the most progressive paid family leave law in the country, as Gov. Kate Brown wraps up legislative loose ends by signing that bill and vetoing others that environmentalists said would be detrimental.
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It just got easier to vote in Oregon, with new laws being signed Friday making it free to mail in ballots, requiring campaign ads to say who paid for them and making political organizations identify their largest donors.
Read moreA federal judge seemed sympathetic Friday to Oregon’s claim that the federal government wrongly withheld law enforcement grants based on the state’s refusal to carry out federal immigration policy.
Read moreOregon will allow students to take “mental health days” just as they would sick days, expanding the reasons for excused school absences to include mental or behavioral health under a new law that experts say is one of the first of its kind in the nation.
Read moreThe Obama-era Clean Water Rule still won’t take effect in Oregon, after a federal judge ruled Wednesday that its long-delayed implementation could “irreparably harm” farmers and ranchers who might have to pay for permits to harm intermittent streams if they end up winning their lawsuit challenging the rule.
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On the eve of introduction of national legislation that would declare a climate emergency, Washington Governor Jay Inslee told an Oregon crowd that he wanted to prevent the scuttling of Oregon’s landmark cap-and-trade bill by ordering the arrest of Republican legislators hiding in his state — but couldn’t make it happen.
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