Insights and Stories on Oregon

U.S. training ag staff to track, trap, kill ‘murder hornets’

Aug. 19, 2021 at 7:53 pm CDT

Blaine, Wash. | Reuters — The first Asian giant hornet nest of the year has been found in Washington state, and plans are being developed to eradicate it, likely next week, the state’s agriculture department said on Thursday. The so-called stinging “murder hornets,” the world’s largest hornets, can grow to […]

Charred U.S. west’s ‘wet ashtray’ wine grapes left to birds

Sep. 23, 2020 at 2:36 am CDT

By Karl Plume

Eye worm, known only in cattle, found in U.S. woman’s eye

Feb. 13, 2018 at 9:11 am CST

By Gina Cherelus

Oregon refuge searched for evidence, explosives after occupiers leave

Feb. 12, 2016 at 5:39 pm CST

By Jimmy Urquhart

FBI sets up checkpoints around Oregon refuge after deadly confrontation

Jan. 27, 2016 at 9:18 am CST

By Peter Henderson

Sympathy for jailed ranchers, anger at occupiers in Oregon town

Jan. 5, 2016 at 6:30 pm CST

Burns, Ore. | Reuters — Residents of the Oregon town thrust into the spotlight after self-styled militiamen took over a U.S. wildlife refuge voiced sympathy for the jailed ranchers whose plight inspired the action but were critical of the armed protesters. Saturday’s takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside […]

By Jimmy Urquhart Jonathan Allen

Oregon activists picked the wrong battle, militia leaders say

Jan. 5, 2016 at 12:53 am CST

Reuters — Self-styled militia members who seized federal property in rural Oregon in an effort to galvanize opposition to the U.S. government appear to have made a tactical error — potential allies say they picked the wrong battle. As armed anti-government activists occupied a snowy wildlife refuge for a third […]

By Andy Sullivan

Protesters occupy Oregon wildlife refuge as rangeland dispute flares

Jan. 4, 2016 at 12:08 am CST

Princeton, Ore. | Reuters — A group of self-styled militiamen occupied the headquarters of a U.S. wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon to protest the imminent jailing of two ranchers, officials said Sunday, in the latest skirmish over federal land management in the U.S. West. The occupation, which began on Saturday, […]

By Jimmy Urquhart

Drought prompts cuts to farm irrigation in California, Oregon

May. 16, 2015 at 12:54 am CDT

Portland | Reuters –– The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will cut the amount of federal irrigation water available to farmers along the Oregon-California border to half the annual norm as it grapples with a fourth year of regional drought, the agency said on Friday. Though the roughly 1,200 affected farms […]

By Courtney Sherwood

No relief in sight for U.S. West’s drought in spring outlook

Mar. 19, 2015 at 6:28 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Drought pressures will increase in California and western areas of the U.S. this spring even as the dry season begins, the government’s Climate Prediction Center said Thursday. “Periods of record warmth in the West and not enough precipitation during the rainy season cut short drought relief […]

By Christine Stebbins

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