The Willamette Valley and the Oregon coast appear to be less likely to face a drought this year than other areas in the ...

Matt LaFever has reported on California’s North Coast in print and radio for nearly a decade. A Humboldt State grad and ...

This U.S. 'Lavender Trail' Rivals the Fields of Provence—and It's About to Bloom Oregon's “Lavender Trail” features 25 local businesses and lots and lots of lavender.

Erick — the fifth named storm of the 2025 Eastern Pacific hurricane season — made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in southern Mexico's Oaxaca on Thursday before later being downgraded to a ...

Short Sand Beach is that kind of place. The locals call it “Shorty’s” – which sounds like the name of a dive bar where you’d get questionable tacos, but is actually one of the most spectacular hidden ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

How to replace the Lower Snake River dams, and their services, is one of the most important policy questions facing the ...

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

The Pacific Northwest is set to bake under potentially record-breaking temperatures as a heat dome remains parked over the region and as potent storms are forecast to bring another bout of heavy ...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland has launched an online database of wildfire mitigation plans to aid ...

Marine mammals are common across the sound -- bald eagles, sea lions, otters and more -- though a sighting of orcas is the crown jewel in terms of an iconic Pacific Northwest experience.

While well-documented in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctica, much less is known about killer whales (Orcinus orca) in ...