Land Use

The Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission eases land-use restrictions following devastating wildfires.

Airport business interests are funding a candidate they hope will get Wilsonville to drop its role in legal challenge to runway extension.

A former oil industry attorney will continue for now calling the shots at a government agency that oversees nearly a quarter-billion public acres in the U.S. West.

A petition that called for new rules to limit when the state can kill endangered wolves that prey on livestock was rejected Friday by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a Klamath Basin water dispute that goes back nearly two decades.

The spotted owl changed the fate of Northwest forests in the summer of 1990. Thirty years later, what hope, if any, do biologists hold for the fate of the spotted owl?

A second lawsuit has been filed against an Oregon ranch accused of causing millions of dollars in damages by negligently igniting a 2018 wildfire.

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would further protect public lands and recreation across the country. The legislation would also help relieve a massive maintenance backlog on federal lands.

A data investigation by OPB, The Oregonian/OregonLive and ProPublica found that timber tax cuts have cost counties at least $3 billion in the past three decades. Here’s how we did our analysis.

Some U.S. National Forests will begin restoring access to developed recreation sites as early as Friday, May 22.