Land Use

The 18,000-acre bison range is located on land taken away by the U.S. government 100 years ago. Congress passed a law in 2020 giving the land back to the local native tribes.

In drive to attack climate change, the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission moves forward with new rules aimed at reducing automobile use.

Oil terminal operator Zenith Energy is taking its land-use dispute with the city of Portland to the Oregon Court of Appeals.

The Snoqualmie Indian Tribe has purchased thousands of acres of ancestral forestlands in East King County.

The Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals decided Thursday that the city of Portland will have to revise its decision to deny a key land-use approval to Zenith Energy, the operator of a controversial oil-by-rail terminal in the northwest industrial area.

Oregon appears to be losing out on new semiconductor factories. Duncan Wyse, President of the Oregon Business Council, has gathered together a team of people to solve what he says is a big problem.

After erosion brought the ocean more than 100 feet closer to the Pine Beach neighborhood over the last 30 years, homeowners built barriers known as rip rap. Environmentalists say Tillamook County is tossing out years of land-use precedent by allowing the erosion controls. Residents say they followed all the rules.

Highway 101, the backbone of Oregon’s coastal transportation system, is in a sorry state. In several spots, tarmac is crumbling into the ocean. But the state is having trouble repairing it because doing so runs contrary to Oregon’s powerful land-use rules. So now, authorities want to tweak the rules despite the failure of past efforts.

Over 1,000 acres of crucial habitat on Mount Ashland will be preserved through a large grant to a nonprofit conservation group.

Stacey said he's stepping down from the regional Portland-area government agency's council for health reasons.