County fairgrounds face rising maintenance costs as revenues flatten RICKREALL, Ore. — With the fairgrounds facing mounting maintenance costs, Polk County officials are considering closing the ...

Central Washington rancher Wade King has sued the state Department of Ecology, seeking to have a jury decide whether he ...

U.S. farm groups are swamping the U.S. Supreme Court with briefs, hoping to ensure justices know how much agriculture needs ...

Salmon-Challis National Forest officials plan prescribed fire operations this spring pending approvals. The prescribed fires ...

Idaho and Washington snowpacks also look paltry Oregon’s snowpack looked “terrible” roughly one month from when it should hit ...

A lawmaker is shelving a controversial proposal to increase Oregon’s competitiveness in computer chip manufacturing by allowing the industrial conversion of farmland outside Hillsboro. Sen. Janeen ...

Public hearing on application set for March 13 A Southern Oregon rancher has applied for a license to create a new livestock auction. D&B Land and Livestock, doing business as […] ...

OLYMPIA — Washington Democrats are tightening the state’s clean-energy law, which Republicans say will choke off economic development, especially in rural counties. Senate Bill 5892 will broaden the ...

Ag groups applaud act, Oregon Congresswoman says specialty crops left behind The House Agriculture Committee passed the 802-page farm bill 34-17 early the morning of March 5, after a 22-hour […] ...

Oregon lawmakers have revised a bill meant to protect immigrant workers from intimidation to relieve concerns about its potential to spur litigation against employers. House Bill 4111 would ban ...

OLYMPIA — Washington Democrats are handing Attorney General Nick Brown power to investigate without judicial oversight anyone who he “believes” is discriminating or violating the Constitution. The ...

The “emergency measures” ordered by federal Judge Michael Simon last week are “death by 1,000 papercuts,” a dam advocate on social media says. Simon on Feb. 25 ordered increased spill […] ...