Author: Grant McOmie (KGW) TILLAMOOK, Ore. (KGW) — John Kallas is a nutritionist, teacher and wild food forager who likes to say that when the tide goes out, his dinner table is set! I recently joined the wild edible pro ...
Author: Kale Williams (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Portland officials plan to announce a new pilot project that would restrict a 16-block area of downtown to only zero-emissions delivery vehicles as part of a $2 million federal grant program. The ...
JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. – The Bear Creek Stewards are looking for volunteers to help them with their Earth Day event this weekend. Teams of volunteers will help to remove litter, debris, and invasive plants along Bear Creek and the greenway from Central Point to ...
Author: Chris McGinness (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) – Right now, electricity is largely a use-it-or-lose-it proposition. “We generate it based on what our usage is, and so all those systems have to be tuned to whatever the grid needs at ...
Author: Anthony Macuk (KGW) NEWPORT, Ore. (KGW) — Oregon environmental officials say cleanup is nearly complete following a Feb. 10 train derailment near Newport that spilled an estimated 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel. The derailment involved a Portland & Western ...
Author: Kale Williams (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Legislators in Oregon have a lot on their plates as the new session gets underway, including top priorities like housing, homelessness and crime, to name a few. But lawmakers are also working on a ...
ASHLAND, Ore. – Southern Oregon University will receive $2 million in federal funding to support its transition to solar power and energy independence. The federal funding will be used to partially fund the university’s multi-year solar transition, which aims to ...
Author: Tim Gordon (KGW) EUGENE, Ore. (KGW) — Up close, bees are beautiful creatures. There are quite a few varieties of them in the Pacific Northwest but they are in trouble. Their numbers are down. In Oregon, a few types ...
SALEM, Ore. – Monsanto will pay nearly $700 million for allegedly polluting Oregon with “polychlorinated biphenyls,” or “PCBs.” Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum’s office said PCBs are toxic compounds formerly used in coolants, electrical equipment and hydraulic oils. They were ...
Author: Kale Williams (KGW) PHILOMATH, Ore. (KGW) — Dan Barnhardt has been raising cattle on his ranch outside of Philomath his whole life. He inherited the ranch in Benton County from his father, who inherited it from his father, who started ...