Oregon

Mt. Hood Skibowl in Oregon will keep cyclists off its forested trails this summer after losing a lawsuit from a man who said he slammed into a signpost and was paralyzed from the waist down.

The avian flu that is spreading quickly across the U.S. has been detected in Oregon for the first time since 2015, in a backyard flock of birds in a rural area. State health officials say the presence of the highly contagious virus was confirmed Friday by federal officials after state officials conducted preliminary testing.

Two areas off the Oregon Coast are being targeted to host offshore wind farms as the Biden administration seeks to ramp up renewable energy production. The sites are about 12 nautical miles offshore Coos Bay and Brookings. This is the first big regulatory step toward bringing an offshore wind project to the Pacific Northwest state.

Neighbors in Portland's Mt. Scott community worked together to combat rising gun violence by changing the environment rather than relying on police. Other communities are learning from their example.

The state of Oregon has sued Illinois-based COVID-19 testing company, the Center for Covid Control, saying its owners took millions of dollars in federal funds and insurance money for themselves and boasted about buying a mansion and expensive sports cars. Washington filed a lawsuit against the same company in January.

In the wake of Idaho's upcoming ban on most abortions, Oregon is preparing for an increase in demand for the procedure. The state is investing millions to help patients and providers most affected.

In Oregon's high desert, a more than 10,000-year-old lake is drying up. That doesn't have to happen. Summer Lake hosts millions of migratory birds annually, but its water is being diverted to farms.

Ecologists in a vast region of wetlands and forest in remote Oregon have spent the past decade thinning young trees and using planned fires to try to…

New updates throughout at 1:23 p.m. July 16: Firefighters scrambled Friday to control a raging inferno in southeastern Oregon that’s spreading miles a day…

Police in Oregon can no longer arrest someone for possession of small amounts of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and other drugs as a ballot…