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People have turned out to demonstrate for racial justice and police accountability in Hermiston, Pendleton and John Day, along the Oregon coast, and in neighborhoods around Portland and its suburbs.

Researchers say there's huge potential for harnessing ocean waves to create electricity. The Energy Department is backing one effort in Oregon.

Colombia's peace deal with FARC guerrillas has sparked a battle among criminal gangs seeking to take over the lucrative illegal drug trade.

Standing in what should have been a more watery Lake Mendocino, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared an emergency executive order in Mendocino and Sonoma counties in response to drought conditions affecting much of the state and the West Coast.

Texans are experiencing the winter storm of the century: sub-freezing temperatures, frozen precipitation and prolonged power outages. The storm is reaching as far south as the Gulf Coast.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Linda Hudson, mayor of Fort Pierce, a city of 43,000 on Florida's Atlantic coast, as everyone waits to see what path Hurricane Dorian will take.

President Trump is doubling down on his claim that Hurricane Dorian was heading to Alabama before it headed up the Atlantic Coast.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to withdraw a controversial proposal to exterminate tens of thousands of invasive mice on the Farallon Islands, 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco. The agency’s decision came after a California Coastal Commission hearing on Wednesday, during which commissioners and members of the public voiced concerns … Continue reading Feds Withdraw Plan to Drop Rat Poison on Farallon Islands – for Now →

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has shelved a controversial proposal to exterminate tens of thousands of invasive mice on the the environmentally sensitive Farallon Islands, 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco.

Hurricane Nate, initially expected to hit Southern states as a Category 2 storm, has been downgraded to a tropical depression. It made landfall near Biloxi, Miss., over the weekend.