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On this episode of My Favorite Lecture, engineering instructor Lonny Grafman shows how engineers benefit from community engagement.By approaching problems…

Oregon state parks had more than 2.8 million visitors last year. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is looking to adjust rates on some parks to persuade people to visit less-popular spots.

The tsunami that battered coastlines along the Sunda Strait over the weekend follows a similar wave that pounded the island of Sulawesi in September, killing an estimated 2,100.

The Trump Administration announced today that California farmers will get more water, fulfilling a campaign promise and contradicting federal biologists who found the plan would drive endangered salmon closer to extinction. The administration’s plan will control irrigation for millions of acres of farmland in the country’s biggest agricultural economy, drinking water for two-thirds of Californians … Continue reading Trump Water Rules Erode Protection for Endangered Salmon →

A jury in Portland has awarded ICTSI Oregon Inc., the Port of Portland's former container ship terminal operator, $93.6 million in damages from a local union.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted on Tuesday to return the land to the Willa and Charles Bruce's great grandsons.

In the 1950s, Mike Seeger sought out and recorded the traditional Southern music of the autoharp, a 36-string instrument small enough to hold in your lap. An expanded version of that collection is now out on CD.

Evan S. Connell, an old American master, and Claire Keegan, a young Irish prodigy, both have new books of short fiction this summer — and both are worth picking up.

Hurricane Matthew is heading toward Florida's Atlantic coast where millions of residents are preparing for its arrival. The Category 4 storm with winds up to 140 miles per hour has already caused damage in Haiti, eastern Cuba and the Bahamas.

All 379 occupants of the Japan Airlines plane escaped safely after colliding with a Japan coast guard aircraft carrying earthquake relief supplies. Five coast guard crew members died.