What a long, strange trip it's been for a small striped fish native to Japan that apparently hitched a cross-Pacific ride in a small boat believed to be part of a tide of debris from that country's March 2011 tsunami.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will host a family fishing event at Cottage Grove Pond in Cottage Grove on Saturday, April 13 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. This event is free and no pre-registration is required.
A conservation group known for interfering with whaling ships wants to stop Oregon's killing of sea lions that eat endangered salmon in the Columbia River.
After rejecting a land management plan by a nudist group, the Lane County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously voted to endorse the bid of a local conservation group to buy a controversial parcel of county-owned floodplains.
A man said he saw a cougar just a few feet away from his kid's grade school playground Wednesday, and the big cat may have been spotted two more times Thursday.
Western snowy plovers - those little birds that scoot along the sand at the coast - will begin nesting soon and that means you'll need to steer clear and give them some space.