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The National Weather Service is suspending some weather balloon launches because of staffing shortages. -
Water managers in the Klamath Basin say, for the first time since 2019, there will be enough water to meet everyone's demands this year. -
Call them the Medford Emeralds, the Timberjacks, or maybe the Medford Pears. A minor league baseball team may be moving to the city. -
Environmental groups in Southern Oregon got a win in court this week in a lawsuit over old-growth forests. -
A timber sale near Roseburg and an accompanying protest have been pushed back to April 22, or Earth Day. -
Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley said the nation is already in a constitutional crisis. He made these remarks at a town hall event in Ashland, his first following a dramatic vote in the U.S. Senate to keep the government open. -
An Arizona businessman said he stumbled across the abandoned plan for a liquefied natural gas terminal in Southern Oregon. Now he’s trying to resurrect the controversial project. -
It’s an especially bad flu season, and whooping cough — or pertussis — is also causing many infections. -
Around a hundred community members showed up to the U.S. Forest Service office in Medford on Wednesday night for a public meeting about proposed amendments to the Northwest Forest Plan. -
Since the 1970s, billions of dollars in federal contracts have gone to forestry work like replanting trees or fuels reduction. Oregon has long been a center for businesses getting those contracts. But that industry looked a lot different 50 years ago.
