Oregon's tallest peak has raked enough moisture out of passing storms to claim the only normal snowpack in the state. But the farther a river basin is from Mount Hood, the worse summertime river flows look.
Folks have been shooting clay targets at the Portland Gun Club for a very long time - 100 years to be exact.
With the summer tourist season fast approaching, authorities are stepping up the search for a mountain man considered armed and dangerous who has spent more than five years breaking into dozens of cabins across remote southern Utah, stealing guns and supplies before retreating into the forest.
A 15-year-old boy from Bend, Oregon scaled Mt. Everest and became the first person with Down syndrome to reach the Nepal base camp.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is halfway through studies of the threat posed by a major offshore earthquake to its 20 dams in Oregon and southern Washington.
The bulb came on when Ty Sermon saw an article about a pair of ice-fishing clinics at Diamond Lake in southwestern Oregon near Crater Lake.
For the first time, federal biologists are assessing whether illegal marijuana gardens in the back woods of the West could threaten the extinction of a wild animal.
Earlier this month, I gave a little weather lesson to my daughter's kindergarten and preschool class and in racking my brain on how to relate something as complex as weather and storms to 3-5 years olds, I came up with something most could all relate to: Angry Birds.
No, really. It turns out, a lot of our storms that push into the Northwest off the Pacific can indeed act like our favorite flying green-pig slayers.
I'll give a few examples:
If you've ever had to fight the crowd to see the seals and sea lions at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, you'll be pleased to know that things are about to change.
Meet Bonnie and Clyde. They aren't notorious yet, but officials at the West Coast Game Park in Bandon say it won't be too long before everyone knows their names.
A company planning to channel the power of the ocean off the Oregon coast into the electrical grid inland says it faces a new regulatory hurdle and needs more money for what has been billed as the nation's first commercial wave energy operation.
If you live in a floodplain, you could soon be required to purchase more insurance. FEMA might be updating the flood insurance rate maps in Coos County.
A 22-year-old Utah man was killed trying to swing through the opening of a 110-foot-tall sandstone arch in a stunt made so popular on YouTube that state authorities recently banned the daredevil activity by commercial outfitters.
The governors of Washington and Oregon are urging the White House to evaluate the effects of greenhouse gasses that would be emitted elsewhere if the nation's coal is exported.
A conservation group known for interfering with whaling ships wants to stop Oregon's killing of sea lions that eat endangered salmon in the Columbia River.
Snowpacks across the state mostly below normal (Photo Gallery)
