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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Oregon, on Friday offered a new wrinkle to conserving the Owyhee Canyonlands, introducing his own legislation and creating the latest twist over a question that has confounded ...

An effort to protect nearly 1 million acres of eastern Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands passed the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent Friday night, Sen. Ron Wyden announced. The matter now moves to the U.S.

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed petitions with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today seeking Endangered Species Act protections for the Owyhee hot springsnail and Owyhee ...

MALHEUR COUNTY, Ore. — The body of a missing kayaker was recovered from the Owyhee River after a six-week search today. Troy Allen Lukens, who was described as transient, had been missing since March ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- 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 ...