When I heard that eastern Oregon counties are thinking of joining Idaho, I wrote a letter to the editor of 12 eastern Oregon and eastern Washington newspapers suggesting that the citizens of those ...

Feet of snow could pile up in the Cascade Mountains as a series of storms and colder temperatures shift through the region into Thursday. A drop in temperatures following a weather system in the ...

Multnomah County Sheriff's Office / AP A winter storm moved into the Pacific Northwest Friday, bringing heavy rainfall to lower elevations in Oregon and Southwest Washington and dumping snow in the ...

While studying the landscape of Oregon’s Cascade Range, also known as the Cascades, a team of scientists discovered that a region of subsurface water is far larger than previously thought—and may even ...

A massive aquifer is stored just beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades — possibly the largest aquifer of its kind in the U.S., according to researchers at the University ...

A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for a wide swath of western Oregon including the Willamette Valley east to the Cascade Range. The storm could bring hail, lightning and high winds in ...

Authorities on Tuesday recovered the bodies of two backcountry skiers who were killed in an avalanche in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon the day before, officials said. Emergency workers responded to ...

A pair of backcountry skiers died Monday in an avalanche in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon. Terence Skjersaa, 57, and Susan Skjersaa, 52, hailed from Bend, Oregon. They were overdue on Monday night ...

Far from the well-trod paths of places like the Historic Columbia River Highway and Silver Falls State Park, beyond even the relatively obscure waterfalls of the McKenzie River, is the North Umpqua ...

Scientists examine a large-volume spring in young volcanic rocks of the Mckenzie River watershed on the west side of the Cascade topographic crest that was monitored as part of this study. Oregon’s ...