The Owyhee Canyonlands are in remote southeastern Oregon and include Leslie Gulch Tuff, which is rhyolite ash that erupted 15.5 million years ago. (Bob Bush/Getty Images) A proposal to protect the ...

Kotek wants the Biden administration to designate the Owyhee Canyonlands in southeastern Oregon a national monument if Congress won’t vote to protect it Undated photo of the Owyhee Canyonlands in ...

Gov. Tina Kotek just made one last plea to President Joe Biden to protect a stunning stretch of the state known as “Oregon’s Grand Canyon” before he leaves office. Kotek wrote to Biden on Nov. 22, ...

MALHEUR COUNTY, Ore. — Search and rescue teams from Oregon and Idaho are now in recovery mode after a 56-year-old kayaker went missing on the Owyhee River near Snively Hot Springs. Troy Lukens, a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – In a bipartisan effort, Oregon lawmakers are vowing to continue pushing for federal protection of Eastern Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands in 2025 following stalled bills in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — On July 23, Rep. Cliff Bentz, who represents Oregon’s 2nd Congressional District, successfully added an amendment to an Interior Department appropriations bill for the 2025 ...

BOISE, Idaho — Two Boise firefighters were recognized Monday at the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl for their role in a water rescue ...

A proposal to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands in southeast Oregon did not make it through Congress at the end of the year but members of Oregon’s delegation said they’ll try anew in 2025. The proposed ...

Water volume in Owyhee Reservoir stood at just over 384,000 acre-feet Dec. 9, 160% of normal and about 87% of the year-earlier total of 439,700. The 30-year median for Dec. 9 is about 241,000 ...