RIDDLE, Oregon (Reuters) - With prices of commodities rocketing upward, it is a great time to be a producer of oil, gold, corn and many other natural resources. Not so for U.S. timber companies, which ...

George Atiyeh, an Oregon logger-turned environmental activist, went missing during wildfires last week near Opal Creek. (Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center. ) As wildfire sped toward George Atiyeh’s ...

According to recent federal data, workers in the logging industry are roughly 33 times more likely to die from a workplace injury compared to those in other civilian occupations. In Oregon, the ...

In 1923, a Missouri lumber company built a town in northeastern Oregon named Maxville. Hundreds of loggers left Arkansas and Mississippi to live and work there. Many brought their families, and many ...

The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, a remote expanse of wilderness along the California-Oregon border, will not lose any of its acreage after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up ...

A logger was seriously injured after a moving boulder struck him, stranding him in an Oregon canyon, deputies say. After being hit by the boulder “outside of Walton” on May 9, the 32-year-old was ...

JOHN DAY, Ore. — One of the most venomous battles in our polarized nation is the one that has unfolded between loggers and environmentalists in timber towns like John Day, in the snow-capped Blue ...

From the sun-dappled, tree-lined village of Joseph, Debbie Price can see the distant snowy peaks of the Seven Devils, a series of mountains in the Rockies that mark Oregon's border with Idaho. But for ...

Even after a competitive first half where they shot 54% on three-pointers, the Ducks failed to prevent their three-game skid from turning into... For decades, Oregon’s history books have been missing ...

Ever since Gwen Trice was a young girl growing up in La Grande, she wanted to move to nearby Wallowa County. Whenever she visited, often as a teenager, she felt something powerful was drawing her ...