The Week In Photos: Sinkholes, Protesters, 'Clowning'

By OPB Staff (OPB)
Feb. 5, 2016 4:03 p.m.

The occupation at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge began on Jan. 2., exhausting everyone involved.

Sinkhole or government conspiracy to hide an alien aircraft? Probably a sinkhole.

B.J. Soper speaks into a megaphone. Protesters with the Pacific Patriots Network faced a counter protest of Harney County residents during the occupation in Burns in January 2016.

Oregon or Mars?

Portland's Somali students have a 58 percent graduation rate. A new language program aims to bring those numbers up.

Can orange ribbons tie back together the fractured community of Burns, Oregon?

From ingredients to belly in 30 minutes — this recipe for salt-baked steelhead comes from The Country Cat Dinner House & Bar in Portland.

Riders on horseback wait to follow the hearse of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupier who was fatally shot by police at a road block on Jan. 26.

This week's gallery touches on everything from salt-baked steelhead to President Obama being offered a spot on the Golden State Warriors.

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