Two Oregonians sued Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum in Marion County Court, claiming she unfairly refused to issue ballot titles for three initiatives that propose laws regulating logging near rivers and streams, aerial spraying of pesticides and governing conflicts of interest for public officials.
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A battle playing out in a tiny Oregon town with no stoplights or cellphone service is pitting residents against one of the world’s biggest tech companies.
Read moreA federal court in Oregon dismissed Republican state Senator Brian Boquist’s claims against other state legislators relating to his temporary bar from the state Capitol. After he and other Republicans walked out of a vote and the governor ordered state police to arrest them and bring them back, Boquist made threatening statements, including a warning that the police should “send bachelors and come heavily armed.”
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The Ninth Circuit Tuesday gave environmentalists another chance to fight a government experiment they say results not only in the intended deaths of barred owls but also in the killing of spotted owls – the very birds it was intended to protect.
Read moreA woman claims in Multnomah County Court that Dr. George Solomon Allen raped her while she was under sedation at Nu U Laser Centers in Beaverton, Ore.; he was arrested twice after numerous other women claimed he sexually assaulted them, according to Oregon news reports.
Read moreThe Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center et al. sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in federal court, claiming it illegally approved the Griffin Half Moon Timber Sale of 9.8 million board feet of timber in the Ashland Resource Area, home to protected Pacific fishers and great gray owls.
Read moreA federal judge yanked a permit to graze cattle on public land from the father and son whose prison sentences for arson on the land in question sparked a 2016 armed standoff between right-wing extremists and federal law enforcement.
Read moreA 20-year-old attacker carried out a series of stabbings and carjackings at a suburban Portland shopping center and nearby town Wednesday, killing one person and wounding three others before being arrested, authorities said.
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A government experiment to kill barred owls to bolster Oregon’s threatened spotted owls got a green light from the Ninth Circuit last year. Now, environmental groups are once again taking aim at the controversial program, this time claiming it also harms the very birds it is intended to protect.
Read morePhotos from the early 1900s show lamprey – an ancient, eel-like fish, covering the rocks at Willamette Falls like a wriggling shag carpet. But like salmon, lamprey numbers dropped dramatically with the erection of dozens of dams in the Pacific Northwest. It’s a problem that Native American tribes have been working to correct for decades. And on Friday, Oregon followed suit, approving its first state-wide restoration plan.
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A federal court judge in Washington found President Barack Obama’s expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument invalid on Tuesday, contradicting an earlier ruling by a federal judge in Oregon and setting the stage for a judicial showdown.
Read moreOregon failed to maximize revenue from logging state forests, and should pay $1 billion to 13 rural counties who deeded the land to the state in 1941, a state jury decided Wednesday.
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The question of whether Oregon has too timidly clearcut its forests to satisfy a 1941 agreement to share logging revenues with rural counties was sent to a jury Tuesday night, after three weeks of testimony dealing with Depression-era forestry laws, industry and the environment.
Read moreThe Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, et al. sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in federal court, challenging its plan to expand logging in the Klamath Falls Resource Area to 111 million board feet of timber in an already fragmented landscape.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday it will not list the California spotted owl as an endangered species.
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Decades of efforts, including billions of dollars spent, to prevent the extinction of 13 species of Columbia River salmon and steelhead were stymied by the resurgence of gregarious mammals who themselves returned from the brink. Now, a new plan backed by Native American tribes and three states would attempt to protect the fish by killing more sea lions.
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Oregon should cough up $1.4 billion to rural counties who claim the state is not logging its forests aggressively enough, lawyers argued Friday in a trial over whether the state is sacrificing revenue to manage state forests for conservation and recreation goals.
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The first dead bull was found in a timbered ravine in eastern Oregon. There was no indication it had been shot, attacked by predators or eaten poisonous plants. The animal’s sex organs and tongue had been removed. All the blood was gone.
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