State wildlife officials voted to keep funding the Rock Creek fish hatchery near Roseburg despite fire damage, rising water temperatures and structural losses A 100-year-old fish hatchery on the North ...

Oregonians making minimum wage will get a 50-cent bump per hour beginning Wednesday, resulting in an average of $573 more per year for someone working full time. In the Portland metro, the floor for ...

Over time, I’ve converted my yard from a lawn with a few trees to a wildlife sanctuary. During spring and summer, all six bird houses and numerous knotholes in the juniper trees became prime real ...

Phil Kolkow of Bend is likely one of the few people in the world who punched someone back to life in an aircraft on a remote runway in frontier Oregon. The air nurse, 74, began his career in the skies ...

The Oregon Historical Society is hosting an event on Thursday evening highlighting one of the state’s earliest and most prominent health and equity advocates. The event, “It Started Here in The Dalles ...

An Alfalfa woman was sentenced June 15 on five counts of second degree animal neglect and one count of failure to meet care standards for a large number of dogs. She will serve 10 days in jail.

Let’s start this piece with a disclaimer: I’ve had a weekly show on local community radio station KPOV for 14 years. I’ve spent a lot of hours there as a volunteer DJ, playing (mostly) music you won’t ...

Emerald ash borer was found at three new Willamette Valley communities in a single week in June. The insect pest was discovered in a shopping center parking lot just east of Interstate 5 in Tualatin ...

The only thing that Central Oregon needs to have a port is to dredge the Deschutes River all the way to the Columbia. That is how I used to think. I now think Central Oregon may get a port. An inland ...

Bend’s new traffic cameras caught more than 400 infractions in its first two weeks. The program began issuing citations at the end of May after a 45-day warning period, according to the Bend Police ...

Fire crews have stopped forward progress on the Cultus fire east of Bend. Level 3 Go Now evacuation orders have been dropped to Level 1 Be Ready for residents in the neighborhoods near Juniper Road, ...

Fast-growing grocery chain Trader Joe’s is planning a second location in Bend. Permit applications filed with the city of Bend in late March show Trader Joe’s has applied for permits at the former ...