CORVALLIS, Ore. — Farmers who grow specialty seeds in Oregon’s Willamette Valley have plenty of weeds but few herbicides to choose from.
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The Bootleg Fire, which has destroyed an area half the size of Rhode Island, was 40% surrounded Friday after burning some 70 homes, mainly cabins, fire officials said.
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Lawmakers should overhaul the Oregon Forest Resources Institute’s governing statute to improve the agency’s objectivity, according to state auditors.
The Willamette Valley became just the second American Viticultural Area — along with California's Napa Valley — to be granted "Protected Geographical Indication" status by the European Union, …
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WALLOWA COUNTY — Firefighters have made gains on the Elbow Creek Fire, but a couple areas of the blaze have given them fits over the last few days.
While the tree may be handsome and provide shade in the summer heat, it is also highly invasive in urban, agricultural and forested regions and can create environmental impacts by blocking out…
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The nation’s largest wildfire, Oregon’s Bootleg Fire, grew to 624 square miles overnight, but fire crews continue to make progress on controlling it.
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Growers are now pushing for solutions that can help farms adapt to increasingly hot and dry conditions, while also tapping into financial incentives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to cu…
Nine confirmed attacks on lambs were attributed to the Ukiah Pack on private land eight miles south of Meacham — the first known report of this pack interacting with livestock.
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Oregon is experiencing August-like fire danger conditions in mid-July, creating the likelihood of a historic fire season for the second year in a row.
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Despite heavy damage from an April 20 fire, there are still signs of activity at the Organic Valley creamery in McMinnville.
LOOKINGGLASS, Ore. — While working hard at bucking hay last summer, Lucas Saylor and Ryland O’Toole noticed a need in neighboring fields.
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PORTLAND — The threat of thunderstorms and lightning has prompted officials in fire-ravaged Oregon to ask for help from outside the Pacific Northwest to prepare for additional blazes as many r…
LINCOLN, Neb. — Football is king in Heppner when it comes to sports, but two high school rodeo athletes are helping put their small town on the map this week at the 73rd National High School F…
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Idaho's Snake River Complex Fire and Oregon’s Bootleg Fire — the nation’s largest — have helped push U.S. acres burned more than one-third higher than the 2020 year-to-date total.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is withdrawing a Trump-era rule that would have significantly rolled back critical habitat protections for the northern spotted owl in Oregon, Washington and…
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The record-shattering heat wave in the Pacific Northwest has prompted fishing and conservation groups to ask a federal court to order more spill from dams on the lower Snake and Columbia river…
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Pacific Gas & Electric equipment may have been involved in the start of the big Dixie Fire burning in the Sierra Nevada, the nation's largest utility reported to California regulators. In …
WALLOWA — Firefighters have performed a successful burnout operation to the southeast of the Elbow Creek Fire, while at least two other places are giving them fits, staff working the fire said…
LA PINE — Even before he was allowed to return to his La Pine home, Mike Harper knew the damage from the Darlene Fire would be bad. The 72-year-old Harper returned to his 10-acres southeast of…
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Firefighters scrambled on Friday to control a raging inferno in southern Oregon.
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The prospect of being appointed to the Oregon Legislature didn’t even cross Anna Scharf’s mind when she took an off-farm job last year.
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The Bootleg Fire — the largest in the U.S. — had scorched more than 227,200 acres by early Thursday after a day of extreme behavior and explosive growth.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Karuk tribal citizen Troy Hockaday Sr. watched helplessly last fall as a raging wildfire leveled the homes of five of his family members, swallowed acres of forest where …
Three homes, 11 structures and an RV were destroyed in the Darlene Fire, officials confirmed Wednesday, as crews battled two separate wildfires in Central Oregon.
Columbia County commissioners have approved rezoning 837 acres of high-value farmland for industrial use near Clatskanie in northwest Oregon, despite concerns over potential impacts to neighbo…
ENTERPRISE, Ore. — It’s almost as if Destiny Wecks was destined for this title.
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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — An extreme heat wave damaged cherries grown in the Yakima Valley and the Northwest in late June and early July. The high temperature reached 113 degrees Fahrenheit in Yaki…
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Firefighters battle blazes across the West as drought sets the stage for record fire season.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Airport officials facing jet fuel shortages are concerned they’ll have to wave off planes and helicopters that drop fire retardants during what could be a ferocious wildfir…
Extreme weather like the deadly heat wave that hit Oregon at the end of June are a sign of things to come, state officials said Monday.
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The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission has once again voted to grant endangered species protections for the marbled murrelet, a small seabird that nests in old-growth forests along the Pacifi…
After hitchhiking a ride from Asia five years go, an unusual worm has been wiggling its way across Oregon.
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Firefighters were working in extreme temperatures across the U.S. West and struggling to contain wildfires, the largest burning in California and Oregon, as another heat wave baked the region,…
The plump and fuzzy Pandora moths, with their black-and-yellow bumblebee bodies and gray and pink wings, are back this summer in Central Oregon.
Over the last decade, stakeholders have worked to increase streamflows and protect the amount of water that farmers need.
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The good news for grape growers, wineries and wine lovers is the historic heat wave came during a narrow window when the fruit suffered little, if any, damage.
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Forecasters are predicting that the odds favor a La Nina forming next fall, a climate phenomenon linked to large snowpacks and good irrigation seasons in most Northwest basins.
Weed scientist Joel Felix says onion growers are making progress in their continuing battle against yellow nutsedge.
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Wickiup Reservoir has approximately six weeks' worth of water reserves. Unless there is substantial rainfall over the next six weeks, patrons of North Unit Irrigation District in Jefferson Cou…
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SALEM — Oregon OSHA on July 8 adopted an emergency rule related to employees working in extreme heat.
A rare morning lightning storm touched off a wildfire in northern Malheur County on Wednesday morning that could easily have turned into a major blaze fanned by gusty winds.
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ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Authorities issued mandatory evacuations on Tuesday and Gov. Kate Brown invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act because of a wildfire east of Roseburg.
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MADRAS, Ore. (AP) — Klamath Falls resident Ruby Reid has built up a quiet but fierce resilience.
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Gov. Brown directed Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Agency, or Oregon OSHA, to enact the rules this week "to ensure urgent protection for workers from extreme heat."
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Cicada killer wasps are native to Oregon and emerge during summer. They live 60 to 75 days before they migrate back underground until the next year.
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Tri-County Farm Fresh Produce, an organization that represents 43 produce farms in Washington, Clackamas and Multnomah counties, sent a letter July 5 to Gov. Kate Brown asking her to declare a…
The Washington State Tree Fruit Association announced Tuesday the Northwest Hort Expo, a major industry conference and trade show, will return to an in-person format this year.
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At least one longtime grower and processor is imploring farms to do their research and study the data first, lest they build into an already oversaturated market.
ATHENA — Organizers of the Athena Caledonian Games are making good on a promise from last spring after canceling the 2020 event because of the global pandemic.
Firefighters contained multiple large wildfires in Central Oregon due to decreased fire activity over the weekend, according to a report Monday by Central Oregon Fire Information, a multiagenc…
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Prolonged extreme heat continues to bake built-up grasses and other fine fuels that dried early during an unusually warm spring. Some timber also dried early.
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A proposal to reopen Oregon's second-largest dairy farm has hit an administrative snag.
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Apple growers and researchers across the Northwest say they're concerned about fruit damage caused by the record-breaking heat wave that struck in late June.
HERMISTON — Hermiston’s watermelon crop is hanging in there despite being pounded by a record-breaking heatwave.
