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Sheriff maintains support for gun rights after mass shooting

ROSEBURG, Ore. – This small town in southern Oregon’s timber country strongly supports gun rights, and that hasn’t changed for the county’s top law enforcement officer since a gunman killed ...

DATE: Oct 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Oregon hemp farmer says startup going slow

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – One of Oregon’s first hemp farmers says a lack of seed is making it tough to get going. Josephine County Commissioner Cheryl Walker says that fertile seed is e...

DATE: Aug 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Stress from heat, drought on fish spurs push to reduce kills

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – Drought and record hot weather are producing lethal conditions for salmon and trout in rivers across the West. A recent survey of the lower reaches of 54 river...

DATE: Jul 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Study: More people could survive tsunami if they walk faster

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – About 5,500 more people could survive a major tsunami hitting the Pacific Northwest if they just walk a little faster to higher ground after roads are knocked out, a new ...

DATE: Apr 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

West Coast’s sardine fishing likely to shut down

Collapse not seen since Calif.’s Cannery Row days

DATE: Apr 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

10 Barrel Brewing sells – or sells out – to InBev

Craft brew fans fall on both sides of the fence

DATE: Dec 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business

Changing winds lead to warming in Pacific

A new study released Monday found that warming temperatures in Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of North America during the past century closely followed natural changes in the wind, not i...

DATE: Sep 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Northwest wildlife refuges to phase out neonicotinoids

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – Federal wildlife refuges in the Northwest and Hawaii will phase out a class of pesticides that are chemically similar to nicotine because they pose a threat to bees and o...

DATE: Jul 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Wandering wolf is now a dad

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – Oregon’s famous wandering wolf has fathered pups with a mate in the southern Cascade Range – the first confirmed wolf pack in those mountains since the 1940s, officials s...

DATE: Jun 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

For $200, you, too, might join this trip – sans any LSD

Psychedelic bus gears up for 50th anniversary ride

DATE: May 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Organic farmers in Oregon wage battle over GMOs

State’s governor signed legislation barring counties from enacting bans

DATE: May 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Scientists want to breed fish to be better biters

In a lifetime of fishing for winter steelhead on Oregon’s Alsea River, Stan Steele has seen it get harder and harder to hook into hatchery-bred fish. Instead, he has found he is more likely ...

DATE: May 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Outdoors