Oregon State Parks has completed some large projects, including at Beverly Beach State Park and Silver Falls State Park, and others are on track for 2026, but a few planned improvements, such as a new visitors center and better parking at Smith Rocks State Park, are now on hold.

Nov. 19 is World Toilet Day, a global event flush with potential. Puns aside, it’s a serious awareness campaign that illustrates how access to a toilet can affect the health, safety and dignity of a community.

A source at the scene confirmed to KLCC on Monday afternoon that the euthanasia had been successfully completed.

Beavers are making a comeback in Oregon. No, we’re not talking about the beleaguered OSU football team—but the fuzzy, semiaquatic rodent species: the North American beaver.

Authorities say chances are “slim to none” that the young whale survives.

They came together Sunday evening not far from Port Townsend. Why, no one can say for sure, except the participants themselves — and no humans speak their language.

On this edition we talk with Rhiannon Bezore of the Oregon King Tides Project about the beauty and the danger of huge tides hitting our Oregon coast right now. They are also increasing in voracity due to climate change. Then we talk with KLCC's Nathan Wilk about the controversy over the Coffin Butte Landfill near Corvallis.

Oregon’s Recycling Modernization Act has been in place for more than three months, and so far, both consumers and recycling centers seem pleased.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says it's taking enforcement action against the Coffin Butte landfill north of Corvallis.

Along the streets of Eugene, trees of various shapes and sizes create canopies of green, orange and red. Whether they sit on the side of the road, on medians or in the center of a roundabout, most of these trees were planted by Eugene’s Urban Forestry Department.