Yachats will officially be deemed a Bird City on Sunday. The town hopes the designation will sharpen the community’s environmental focus.

Modeling gives Oregon a one-in-ten chance of reaching normal snowpack levels this year.

A federal judge in Oregon has ordered dams that operate on the Columbia and Snake rivers to generate less hydropower and allow more water to pass in an effort to keep salmon populations from dying out. The order largely restores measures that were in place under a landmark deal to protect salmon that the Trump administration canceled last year.

On this edition, we talk to avalanche experts Professor David Hill and Central Oregon Avalanche Center forecaster Gabriel Coler about avalanche control, prediction, and survivability.

Last year, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians petitioned the Oregon State Marine Board to impose a motorized boat ban on the upper Siletz river in Lincoln County. The board is expected to issue a temporary rule at its meeting in early April, ahead of a series of public meetings.

Could Oregon ban the killing of animals for food, research and hunting? We talk with the leader of Initiative Petition 28, then hear the story of the McKenzie River drift boat, the Oregon-born craft that changed whitewater river running forever.

Commissioners adopted an administrative law judge’s order requiring updates to Winchester Dam.

Oregon’s second most populous city is hoping to take a page out of Portland’s billion-dollar climate action playbook.

Springfield Utility Board is working to establish an additional source of drinking water. It recently received nearly $10 million in state funding to help.

After four hours of emotional public comment, the commission voted 6-1 to deny the petition.