For nearly a decade, tension has grown in Oregon between the desire for agricultural and wildlife conservation and the desire for renewable energy development. In 2023, the Oregon Legislature passed ...

Solar panels and wind turbines work to create clean electric power May 24, 2022, at Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility in Morrow County. Portland General Electric partnered with NextEra Energy ...

Jim Abeles and Kat Topaz had a dream: to get out of the rat race and become farmers. But the couple, who both used to work in publishing and tech, didn’t realize how hard it would be to make a living ...

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — Local family farms are upset over the new proposed farmstand rules, which they say would benefit large corporate farms and make it harder for small farms to operate, including ...

Oregon is pumping the brakes on changes to farm stand rules, after owners of a handful of small farms across Oregon stormed to social media. At issue is a set of proposed rule changes Oregon’s ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A proposed rule change to how Oregon classifies its growing agritourism business is causing panic among some locally-owned farming operations. Jim Abels and Kat Topaz, who run ...

Conservation groups in Southern Oregon are celebrating a win. A judge has approved a previous ruling against the Bureau of Land Management's plans for the region that would allow illegal logging in ...

A Republican pitch to sell millions of acres of public lands — including thousands of acres in Oregon — has been drastically scaled back. The public lands provision in the budget bill would have ...