The on-again-off-again nature of Trump’s job cuts are only adding to the confusion. Some 3,400 probationary employees were ...

The number of people visiting Oregon’s state park system reached an all-time high in 2024, fueled by a boom of people ...

Enter the first major U.S. airport with a timber roof and the wow factor is everywhere. Undertaken at a cost of $2.1 billion, ...

The U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management have completed the rescue of hundreds of wild horses facing starvation in the Murderers Creek area of Eastern Oregon.

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A former Bureau of Land Management worker at Oregon’s historic Yaquina Head Lighthouse who lost her job as part of the Trump administration’s layoff of federal ...

Kathleen Sgamma has led the Western Energy Alliance in litigation to push for more fossil fuel production on public lands. President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management ...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPB Updated at 12:25 p.m. Monday — Officials at Providence Health and Services have agreed to return to negotiations with a union representing nearly 5,000 nurses across ...

Portland city leaders are imploring the state and surrounding municipalities to help provide social services for asylum seekers and refugees, warning that pending changes to state and federal ...

Portland Water Bureau pauses $2.1 billion Bull Run Filtration Project due to adverse land-use ruling. Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals remanded decision, citing insufficient consideration of natural ...

Some supporters of Kathleen Sgamma predicted she would support some green energy projects, while shifting the Bureau of Land Management’s emphasis to fossil fuels. As a longtime advocate for oil ...

BEAVERTON, Ore — Portland Public Schools, the Beaverton School District, the Salem-Keizer School District and dozens of other districts across western Oregon preemptively canceled classes Friday ...