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City of Bend appeals $30K Oregon DEQ fine over effluent limit, monitoring violations
The city of Bend is appealing a $30,333 penalty levied early last month by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality for violating effluent…
Continue ReadingThe city of Bend is appealing a $30,333 penalty levied early last month by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality for violating effluent…
Continue ReadingFrom Prineville’s Christmas in the Pines to Albany’s Twice Around Christmas Parade to Lincoln City’s Deck the Dock, festive community…
Continue ReadingAs part of its ongoing commitment to ensure the future of elk and other wildlife by helping rehabilitate landscapes impacted by wildfire, the Rocky…
Continue ReadingRising dramatically above Upper Klamath Lake in Southern Oregon, Spence Mountain is home to oak and ponderosa pine woodlands, some of the rarest…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – This year, anglers caught and removed more than 140,000 northern pikeminnow from the Columbia and Snake rivers, protecting…
Continue ReadingSens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Richard Glick and FERC commissioners,…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Policymakers for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on Monday approved a rule that prohibits the sale of new…
Continue ReadingBy David Steves and Cassandra Profita Oregon Public Broadcasting Oregon is on its way to creating North America’s largest research forest,…
Continue ReadingFor the first time since 2019, Oregon State Parks will host Whale Watch Week in person along the Oregon Coast Dec. 28–Jan.…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Whitebark pine trees can live more than 1,000 years, but in just two decades more than a…
Continue ReadingA new study published in Nature Energy found that electricity customers often lack awareness of their daily energy-use patterns at home, which…
Continue ReadingAfter hearing some criticism from the Central Oregon Association of Realtors and a mix of views during a public hearing, Bend city councilors moved…
Continue ReadingOregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have introduced scaled-down legislation to protect over 3,200 miles of waterways around the state as wild…
Continue ReadingOn Thursday, Dec. 15, from 10 a.m. to noon, the City of Bend’s Mirror Pond Fish Passage Advisory Committee will host a virtual meeting to review…
Continue ReadingSens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Tuesday a revised, scaled-down River Democracy Act they said reflects input from communities…
Continue ReadingBy GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Tuesday marks the first-ever U.S. auction of leases to develop commercial-scale floating…
Continue ReadingASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — Scientists along the West Coast are calling for action to help sunflower sea stars, among the largest sea stars in the world,…
Continue ReadingAAA is expanding its capabilities and membership benefits by providing more services for electric vehicle drivers with the addition of a mobile…
Continue ReadingThe Bureau of Land Management is offering people the opportunity to provide input on the City of Redmond’s request to lease about 620 acres of BLM…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday lifted a temporary restraining order that limited wolf hunting and…
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