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Opponents say industrial poultry operations planned for Scio and Aumsville are reinforcing a trend in Oregon agriculture where only the largest farms survive.

Paramount Gold will soon begin preparing an environmental impact statement, which will open the company's mining proposal up to regulatory and public scrutiny.

Intentional, low-severity fires are a key tool in managing forests to reduce wildfire risk. Rare but high-profile escapes can hamper efforts to light more of them.

Paramount Gold has submitted its operations plan to federal regulators and is closer to a permit decision from the state of Oregon, but still faces a long road to approval.

The investment could be a big boost for a Texas company hoping to produce sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel along the Columbia River.

The state Department of Environmental Quality says it doesn’t have the staff or funding necessary to start a dairy emissions program.

Central Oregon’s beer boom has relied on an abundance of clean water. As water becomes more scarce in the high desert, one brewery shares how it hopes to sustain its business.

Oregon’s wolf-poaching problem continues with the slaying of OR-88, the breeding female of the Lookout Mountain pack.

A program offering cash payments to people willing to loan their water to struggling Central Oregon farmers looks to overcome challenges in second year.

The denial affirms a lower court decision saying the "greatest permanent value" of Oregon forests is more than just timber revenue.