After a late-season snowstorm walloped Bend and higher elevation areas earlier this month, sunshine and higher temperatures ...

A man searches the patchwork of sagebrush and agricultural fields in south-central Washington for a bird that has struggled ...

Right now some of us might be feeling a little tired of cold weather, having a few days of sunshine before going back to ...

Mid-winter "false springs" — warm, spring-like days — also threaten insect populations as they can trick insects into emerging from hibernation or hatching early. When freezing temperatures return, ...

It’s time to dig out your best binoculars, grab a sunhat and update your favorite birding apps because Central Oregon is ...

Sure, birds can be annoying. On Portland’s Sauvie Island now, snow geese unnervingly dominate the sky like a Hitchcock horror film, and aptly named cackling geese create such an unrelentingly ...

In a bipartisan letter to U.S. Department of Interior, 19 lawmakers asked the agency to halt a plan to kill 450,000 barred ...

For example, the night of March 10 to 11, an estimated 20 million birds were predicted to be migrating in the United States. Areas of high migration include Iowa, central Texas and up into Oklahoma.

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Central Oregon unemployment rates were unchanged in January, though the region saw a 1,300-job reduction as 2025 began, the Oregon Employment Department reported Tuesday.

Our destination was the small beach town of Manzanita, Oregon, but the vacation started the moment we got into the rental car in Portland. With startling quickness, we were out of the city and ...

H5N1 strain of the bird flu has impacted more than 166 million birds in backyard and commercial poultry operations since 2022, and Iowa flocks have been hit harder than any other state, in terms of ...

The flock had 27 birds, according to the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. It was the fifth detection this year in an Iowa flock, which stands in contrast with 2024, when the ...