Fueled by wind gusts and dry conditions in the Columbia River Gorge, the Rowena Fire quickly grew to 3,500 acres by Thursday ...

A wildfire in Oregon has prompted evacuation orders for hundreds of homes and the closure of nearly 20 miles of an interstate ...

Waterfalls can feel like a dime a dozen in Oregon, where hundreds of documented plunges and multiple “waterfall corridors” are found in the Columbia River Gorge, Willamette Valley, Coast Range and, ...

But NOWA officials argue that the Columbia is more robust and less over-extended than other irrigated rivers, making it more likely to withstand the pressures of Eastern Oregon’s agricultural ...

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness talks ... including the little-known Chinook Trail in the Columbia River Gorge. Then, he spotlights a little-known, long-distance ...

Nineteen northwestern pond turtles have been growing in the Oregon zoo’s lab, and now they’re heading back to nature. Conservationists took the endangered turtles to ponds along the Columbia ...