Sheraz Sadiq

For more than 25 years, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule has helped protect nearly 60 million acres of federal forest lands from logging and new road construction. Last year, the Trump administration announced it would end “the roadless rule,” which it claims would allow for “more flexibility” to reduce wildfire risk and for “responsible timber production.”

Nearly 30% of people who experienced homelessness in Clark County last year were children. That’s according to a recent report by the Council for Homelessness, which also found that the percentage of family households stabilized through rent assistance dropped by 5% last year.

Rangeland Fire Protection Associations are composed of ranchers and private landowners who volunteer to help fight wildfires in remote, private lands. Two RFPA members share their experiences responding to the Rowe Creek Complex and Akawa Butte fire in Central Oregon.

He hear from Oregon Department of Forestry Fire Protection Division Chief on how the agency is helping respond to the dozens of wildfires raging across the state.

By Monday, the Bench Fire near the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Indian Reservation grew to more than 40,000 acres after combining with the Beachcomb Fire.

Earlier this month, the Pharmacy Foundation of Oregon announced it was awarded more than $5 million from the Oregon Health Authority to expand pharmacy access in rural and frontier communities.

Oregonian classical guitarist and composer kicked off a two-month-long concert tour of more than 30 performances at 15 Oregon state parks and other outdoor locations.

Portland entrepreneur Mark Maher says it was around March 2025 when he and his family got to experience firsthand the thrill of smashing ceramic plates, glass vases, TVs and other electronic devices. That experience took place at a friend’s rage room in Boise, Idaho, where customers book sessions to don goggles, gloves and other safety equipment to obliterate objects in a controlled, safe environment.

Roughly 6.5 million people in the U.S. live in areas that are highly susceptible to landslides. West Coast residents — including those on the Oregon Coast and Washington’s Puget Sound — face the second-greatest exposure to landslides, after Appalachian communities in and around W. Virginia.

This undated, provided photo shows the 1939 school bus called Furthur parked inside a barn on the Kesey family farm in Pleasant Hill, Ore. For the first time since 1969, the bus that became a symbol of '60s counterculture will be on public display as part of a Grateful Dead-themed exhibition in San Francisco.