In early February, a federal district court held that Oregon’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) recycling law is likely ...

Lawmakers approved about $2 million to buy Abiqua Falls and surrounding land that had been advertised on the real estate site ...

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality released the 2025 Wildfire Trends Report, which measures how particulate ...

A judge has upheld a more than $77,000 fine to operators of the Winchester Dam near Roseburg for water quality violations ...

One of two civil lawsuits against J.H. Baxter for polluting a Eugene neighborhood has settled for $200,000, but its class-action status was decertified.

On February 6, 2026, the United States District Court for the District of Oregon granted a preliminary injunction preventing the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) from enforcing ...

SALEM — Several environmental groups claim a bill meant to simplify government oversight of irrigation from the Columbia river will actually subvert water protections in Northeast Oregon. “This bill ...

The National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW) has secured a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of Oregon’s Recycling Modernization Act (RMA), which establishes a statewide ...

Thousands of residents across central Oregon are being urged to limit time outdoors this weekend as an Air Quality Alert remains in effect until noon PST Saturday. The Oregon Department of ...

On Jan. 20, the Center for Food Safety and the Northwest Environmental Defense Center filed a lawsuit against Pacific Seafood’s Bio Products, claiming that the Warrenton facility has been engaged in ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality recently fined a Prineville man more than $30,000 for storing about 6,000 old tires on property east of Bend. A DEQ official said ...

More than $1 million in federal funding is headed to Crook County to help determine the cause of an ongoing groundwater contamination issue in northwest Prineville. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Ron ...