College Picks: LSU looks to shake up SEC
LSU has a chance to prevent that Alabama-Florida SEC championship game that everyone seems to be looking forward to in December. The ninth-ranked Tigers will be in Tuscaloosa on Saturday to face the third-ranked Crimson Tide, which can wrap up the SE...
 4.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 153.0 Bend company preserves national X-mas tree
BEND Santa Claus isn t the only one with a lot of responsibility this Christmas. A Bend company is tasked with keeping the nation s Christmas tree fresh from its cutting later this week until its arrival in Washington, D.C., three weeks later. The ...
2.8K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 162.0 World Golf Hall of Fame holds induction
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. Lanny Wadkins, Jose Maria Olazabal and Christy O Connor Sr. were inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Monday night, a reward for hundreds of international victories and stellar performances under intense pressure in the ...
2.8K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 102.0 Reports: Federal stimulus sends $1.8B to Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon has received about $1.8 billion in the first eight months of the federal stimulus program credited with saving or creating nearly 10,000 jobs in the state. Reports released Friday showed the largest number of jobs saved by...
3.1K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 102.0 You can't outlaw unpopular ideas
If Oregon had a neck, environmental protesters would be a throbbing pain in it. But the state s Court of Appeals was right to confirm that these sometimes irritating activists have the same rights as other Americans. The court this week struck down a...
2.1K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 183.0 College Picks: Big games will help sort out league races
Much like politics, college football is essentially local. Sure, Florida, Texas and Southern California will play huge rivalry games with national title implications Saturday. But more importantly, those three games will go a long way toward sorting ...
4.2K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 153.0 Logging activists win court battle
PORTLAND People against logging old growth forests won an Oregon Court of Appeals ruling Wednesday that struck down a state law on grounds it treats an environmental dispute differently. The case grew out of arrests in March 2005 in the Siskiyou Na...
3.0K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 708.0 China to lift import ban on U.S. pork
WASHINGTON (AP) Chinese officials have agreed to lift the ban on U.S. pork imports they imposed last spring out of fear of swine flu. The announcement, made today, is a major boost to the beleaguered U.S. pork industry, which had already been suffe...
2.1K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 102.0 Check library for recommended books
It s no surprise that public libraries are as strapped for cash as everyone else. That doesn t mean, however, that your local library isn t purchasing new children s books. Many of the books you ll find in this column listed as Books to Buy may als...
4.5K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 102.0 Study: Warm forests may yield less timber
GRANTS PASS (AP) A new study suggests warming temperatures predicted over the next century could boost tree growth on Northwest forests, but less so at lower elevations where most of the timber is and temperatures are already warm. Researchers from...
4.6K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 257.0 Late-night rumblings of thunder
It woke me up ” thunder rumbling through the night sky. I didn t need to open the curtains to know that somewhere in the dark clouds there were flashes of lightning, too. Clouds, such as the dense blanket that night, form as relatively warmer,...
3.9K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 132.0 Late-night rumblings of thunder
It woke me up ” thunder rumbling through the night sky. I didn t need to open the curtains to know that somewhere in the dark clouds there were flashes of lightning, too. Clouds, such as the dense blanket that night, form as relatively warmer,...
3.9K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 132.0 Reedsport saves big money on levee deal
REEDSPORT The city of Reedsport has partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to get its flood levees inspected and certified by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Not only will the move save the city tens of thousands of dollars, it will prevent resid...
3.4K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 153.0 Kulongoski wants to head off South Coast gold miners
GRANTS PASS Gov. Ted Kulongoski wants to head off recreational miners who are headed for them thar hills in Oregon after California stopped prospectors from using suction dredges to glean flecks of gold from salmon rivers. The governor sent lette...
4.0K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 183.0 Interior, BLM offers 62 timber sales in Oregon
GRANTS PASS (AP) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday announced a crop of timber sales for federal lands in Western Oregon intended to keep Oregon mills open while the Obama administration works on a new long-term forest management strategy....
4.1K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 214.0 Burn postponed at Crater Lake
CRATER LAKE (AP) Officials at Crater Lake National Park have postponed a 1,350-acre prescribed fire until the weather improves. The fire on the northeast section of the park had been tentatively planned for Friday, but officials say they delayed it...
0.7K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 102.0 Top RBs on display in Corvallis
PORTLAND ” Stanford s Toby Gerhart and Oregon State s Jacquizz Rodgers figure to make today s game between the two teams a ground-based affair. Of the two high-profile running backs, Gerhart is the seasoned veteran finally getting national...
3.3K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 132.0 Dune lakes off limits to ATVs
There will be no more joyriding around the Beal and Snag lakes on the south end of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. Off-road enthusiasts who get a thrill skirting the perimeters of those dune lakes could face a fine of up to $5,000...
3.0K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 699.0 Pickering will run for county post
Not only on a national level, but now on a local level, the need for change has been a recurring theme among politicians running for office. That s what the newest county commissioner candidate is touting, too. The same old ideas aren t working, sai...
2.2K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 102.0 Recreation Report
SIUSLAW RIVER: Fall Chinook anglers are having slow to fair success. Anglers are catching coho, but only adipose fin-clipped coho may be retained. Fishing for resident and sea-run cutthroat trout is fair to good. COOS COUNTY LAKES: Fishing for largem...
4.3K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 132.0 | 
