The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that conservation groups have a good chance of overturning a state order to kill wolves blamed for attacking livestock.

Denny Johnson has raised cattle for 32 years on his remote northeast Oregon ranch at the foot of the Wallowa Mountains, struggling each winter through bitter cold, biting winds and deep snow.

The Oregon House unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to pay ranchers for livestock lost to wolves moving into the state.

A hearing in Salem on proposed wolf management bills showed agreement from just about everybody on one issue: ranchers should be compensated for livestock losses.

A committee in the Oregon House will hold a hearing Wednesday about a bill to shoot wolves that threaten livestock, dogs and people.

Oregon Cattlemen's Association President Bill Hoyt says ranchers don't want to wipe out wolves, but need the tools to defend their livestock.

As wolves spread through Oregon from Idaho, ranchers are trying to get the right to shoot wolves they see attacking livestock, and for the state to pay for cattle and sheep that are killed.

An Oregon county has approved a compensation fund for ranchers who lose livestock to wolves in the northeastern corner of the state, next to Idaho and Washington.

Dalton Straus, 79, received the 2010 Agriculturalist of the Year award from the Agri-Business Council of Oregon at the 13th Annual Denim & Diamonds Dinner and Auction in Portland.

For the past four weeks, Jason Cunningham has camped out with cows grazing in wolf territory.

Two Oregon ranchers described by friends as "the salt of the earth" have been indicted on charges they set a series of range fires going back to the early 1980s because they were frustrated with the time it took for the government to permit...

Wolves that have moved into Oregon from Idaho appear to be extending their range west, with recent sightings in the southern Cascades and the Ochoco Mountains.

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife wolf coordinator Russ Morgan heard at least two adults and two pups answer his howls under a bright moon in the pre-dawn hours Friday on the Umatilla National Forest in northern Union County.