If you want to fully understand how the state of Oregon developed culturally and commercially, you need to understand the development of the state's system of railroads. That was a big part of the ...

GRANTS PASS — U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden has unveiled his long-awaited bill to boost logging on federal lands in Western Oregon to help struggling timber counties. The Oregon and California Land Grant Act of ...

Oregon Wild says that the forestlands once owned by the now-defunct Oregon & California Railroad are the most endangered place in the state. (The Oregonian) Oregon environmental groups on Monday ...

A fire crew with a brush tender works on suppressing the Rail Ridge Fire, which has been burning south of Dayville since Sept. 2. Oregon's federal lawmakers are divided on the merits of a proposal to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – National Geographic recently released a list of the top 10 “dreamiest” stargazing trains in the United States, including one railroad excursion on the Oregon coast. “From the ...

State forest service partners with railroad for fuel thinning project near Rockwood “I’d much rather deal with this than that,” said Matt Mattioda, gesturing first to a heaping stack of logs, then to ...

This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of ...

After seven decades in operation, the Oregon Logging Conference was a combination of something old and something new this year. "A Seventy-Year Tradition — Forestry, Equipment, Education," was the ...

Bill Habjan, a retired doctor from Lebanon, Oregon, makes the 160-mile round trip to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland’s Central Eastside twice a week to work on an old engine. “When a steam ...

Employers intending to use winch- or cable-assisted systems for steep slope logging must ensure that the harvesting machine was specified by its manufacturer for operation on slopes of more than 40 or ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A train carrying a load of logs derailed near downtown Salem, Oregon, causing authorities to close several roads. The derailment occurred Tuesday night in an industrial area a few ...