Agriculture

The coalition, organized under state Rep. Mark Owens, recently filed a petition asking the Oregon Water Resources Commission to consider a different set of rules that diverges from regulators own proposals to curb over pumping in the region.

It’s the crush season across the country, but with the world wine market sluggish the last few years, many in the U.S. industry say they’re so backed up with unsold wine that they’re dropping grapes to the ground or not harvesting them at all.

A federal agency's proposal to increase the amount of water allocated to Klamath Project irrigators in southern Oregon and northern California worries the Klamath Tribes, who say it lowers water levels and removes aquatic plants for juvenile fish to grow and eat.

Between April and July, Oregon experienced its fourth driest period since record keeping began in 1895, according to the state’s climatologist.

For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock. Most of them didn’t have drones.

Oregon cherry farmers expected a boon this season. The summer fruit was high quality, and production was up from last year. But this season was more of a bust.

The Trump administration tapped the Republican Tootie Smith to lead the federal agency.

The man is an asylum seeker for Guatemala who immigration authorities already let back into the U.S. in 2024.

Earlier this summer, the federal government took back over a billion dollars that was already promised to conservation groups, farmers and ranchers. In Oregon, some of those grants would have gone to wildfire mitigation in forests and rangelands. But those projects are now on pause.

The Washington State University study evaluated groundwater levels throughout the Washington portion of the Columbia Plateau Regional Aquifer System, which spans areas of Washington, Oregon and Idaho.