SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Gov. Tina Kotek signed two bills into law Monday to address the growing environmental and public health impacts of single-use plastics, which supporters said positions Oregon as a national leader in reducing plastic pollution.
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The late snowfall into the spring brought its pluses and minuses to the High Desert. It eased our drought conditions, but also have delayed the seasonal opening of several campgrounds and higher-elevation fishing spots.
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The city of Bend is looking for community members to join a new temporary committee designed to help guide the future of how and where trees will be regulated in Bend.
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The Redmond Municipal Airport recently had an osprey nest removed from a location near the end of an airport runway. The airport tells us it had to do with safety, and was part of a wildlife mitigation plan.
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A new app allows anglers to bypass the registration station so they can spend more time and earn more money for reeling in voracious salmon-eating predators during this year’s Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Program.
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A researcher at Oregon State University-Cascades has received funding to develop a smart compost bin that tracks household food waste.
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The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have announced the closure of all recreational crabbing on the southern Oregon coast from Takenitch Creek (8 miles north of Winchester Bay) to Cape Blanco due to elevated levels of the marine biotoxin domoic acid.
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The city of Bend is working to establish a balance between building development addressing the critical issue of housing in our community, while preserving our trees.
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Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality has fined a Bend gas station nearly $12,000, alleging it failed to install proper spill detection equipment for underground storage tanks and to conduct required testing and inspections. But the business disputed the claims, saying it’s been working with the agency and expects a reduction in the penalty.
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Sunriver Resort marked Arbor Day on Friday by planting hundreds of Ponderosa pine seedlings from Brooks Farms — one seedling for each of the resort’s 300 Earth Day guests and 100 more donated by the resort.
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Sunriver Resort, the Pacific Northwest’s treasured resort destination, announced Wednesday its commitment to planting 400 Ponderosa pines near Woodlands Golf Course on Arbor Day. This initiative is the second part of Sunriver’s Earth Day campaign, which began with the One Tree Planted for Every Guest Stay initiative.
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The Ochoco National Forest has issued a final Environmental Assessment and identified a Preferred Alternative for the Lemon Gulch Trails Project. However, the Deciding Official, District Ranger Slater Turner, has chosen to withdraw the project from consideration, citing the “social divisions” the proposal generated.
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Oregonians joined together for the annual SOLVE Oregon Spring Cleanup, presented by Portland General Electric.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – During the last ice age, massive icebergs periodically broke off from an ice sheet covering a large swath of North America and discharged rapidly melting ice into the North Atlantic Ocean around Greenland, triggering abrupt climate change impacts across the globe.
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The federal Bureau of Reclamation has announced it will provide about half the funding for a $5.38 million project by the Deschutes River Conservancy and three Central Oregon irrigation districts to pipe over six miles of canals and improve monitoring and measurement.
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(Update: Adding more photos, time-lapse video) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — A “coronal mass ejection” that exploded from the Sun in recent days hit Earth’s magnetic field earlier than expected on Sunday, sparking a severe G4-class geomagnetic storm — and a dazzling view of colorful auroras visible over a wide area of the globe, much farther
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The Department of the Interior announced Friday a $35 million investment in fiscal year 2023 funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for 39 projects in 22 states – including Crook County, Oregon – that will address outdated or obsolete dams, culverts, levees and other barriers fragmenting our nation’s rivers and streams.
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The Environmental Center is thrilled to host their family-friendly Earth Day Fair and Parade on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission accepted a petition Friday to list the Southern Resident killer whale Distinct Population Segment as Endangered under the Oregon Endangered Species Act.
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COCC held a special Earth Day Fashion Show of donated and upcycled clothing on Friday in a fund-raising benefit for the school’s Clothing Connection, a free service providing school and work clothing to COCC and OSU-Cascades students.
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