1+ week, 4+ day ago   (430+ words) Riverside Park received another round of community cleanup Saturday morning as local volunteers collected discarded clothing and litter while finding relatively little drug paraphernalia, cleanup organizer Del Aldridge said. The August 29 effort brought three new volunteers into the group, adding…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (661+ words) Cyanobacteria are affecting waterways across Southern Oregon, with active state precautions or advisories now posted from Jackson and Douglas counties into the Klamath Basin as a striking bloom on Portland’s Willamette River adds another major waterway to Oregon’s expanding late-summer…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (254+ words) The law does not eliminate recycling expenses or guarantee lower garbage bills. Instead, it changes where a portion of the money originates. Packaging now carries potential financial obligations for covered producers after products have entered Oregon commerce, connecting the cost…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (963+ words) Questions surrounding Oregon’s weather-modification activities are expanding beyond the technology used to produce additional rain or snow, as an independent inquiry seeks records concerning both the legal authorization for ongoing cloud-seeding work and the environmental fate of silver iodide released…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (197+ words) Despite their destructive power in plants, viroids pose no threat to humans. They cannot enter human cells, cannot replicate in human tissues, and cannot interact with human RNA pathways. Their entire life cycle is locked to plant biology, and even…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (441+ words) Oregon is beginning a broad examination of how the state can strengthen the economic potential of its coastline while maintaining the marine environments, natural resources and coastal ecosystems that support many of those same industries. The task force is scheduled…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (509+ words) A newly filed constitutional initiative has entered Oregon’s political system more than three years before voters could potentially decide its fate, beginning a lengthy qualification process that could eventually place another proposed change to the Oregon Constitution before the statewide…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (853+ words) Hunting a deer in the Cascades, casting for salmon on an Oregon river, raising cattle east of the mountains and producing crops in the Rogue, Umpqua and Willamette valleys are activities governed by very different sets of state law. A…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (164+ words) The gates are preparing to open again at Whitehorse Park, where a newly renovated campground will welcome residents, visitors and overnight campers back on September 2 following an extensive upgrade to the park’s upper section. Josephine County Recreation Director Tamra Martin…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (715+ words) Grants Pass Tribune Get the latest FREE edition of Grants Pass Tribune. Odell Lake Conditions Improve as Health Warning Eases, but Precaution Remains A summer health warning at one of Oregon’s prominent Cascade recreation destinations has been reduced after new…...