Mexican soldiers found the largest marijuana plantation ever detected in Mexico, a huge field covering almost 300 acres (120 hectares), the Defense Department said Thursday.
Fire rips through home in rural Lookinglass neighborhood, destroying an old farm house. Investigators say while the cause is "undetermined" it looks like it could be electrical.
Test fires will be conducted in the Silverton, Stayton, and Sublimity areas Monday with the possibility of limited open field burning to follow, the Oregon Department of Agriculture said in a press release.
State environmental regulators have extended the time the public has to comment on new rules being written to phase out most field burning in the Willamette Valley.
The Oregon legislature all but outlawed field burning -- starting next year. The practice remains in effect this summer, with test fires and potential field burning Monday in Brownsville, Harrisburg, Scio and Sublimity.
Grass seed farmer Wendell Manning has designed a gizmo that attaches to a "no-till" drill. It cuts a path in the dirt for new seed to be planted on the finely chopped stubble that he leaves on the ground -- no field burning required.
Bills, committees, votes, debates: The Oregon Legislature adjourned after leaving Oregon with several new laws -- and some unfinished business. Take a look at what the House and Senate did -- and didn't do -- this session.
The foes of field burning say the phaseout is long overdue, but a grass seed grower says the potential air quality impact of weeks of soil tilling will make a few days of field burning look tame by comparison.