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The decision makes it easier to win approval for highways, bridges, pipelines, wind farms, and other infrastructure projects.

The team clinched first place at the annual Oregon Marine Advanced Technology Education Remotely Operated Vehicle competition in Newport earlier this month and has qualified to compete in the World Championship next month.

Hells Canyon is the deepest river canyon in the United States. Now scientists have solved the mystery of when it formed.

Lewis Pugh wants to change public perceptions and encourage protections for sharks — which he said the film maligned as "villains, as cold-blooded killers."

The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ancient armored fish.

While tornadoes can obliterate communities, hailstorms cause damage across much larger areas.

The first Alzheimer's blood test cleared by the Food And Drug Administration is poised to change the way doctors diagnose and treat the disease.

A Georgia woman declared brain dead is being kept on life support because she is pregnant. It raises complicated legal questions about restrictive abortion laws in Georgia and other states.

A Washington County judge will sentence Robert Atrops in July for the murder of his wife more than three decades ago, a crime that comes with a mandatory sentence of life in prison. In the final argument jurors heard during the trial’s close last month, prosecutors laid out their theory about what that forensic evidence meant.

Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government.