How tribal leaders, commercial fisherman and a few small environmental groups won an uphill campaign against dams.

Mount Spurr is one of 53 volcanoes in Alaska that have been active within the last 250 years and is nearly 80 miles northwest of Anchorage.

Surrounded by green hills and beige rock, Lake Salda sits in what is sometimes called the Turkish Lake District, a great ...

Jim O'Connor is a research geologist with the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ). He joins the exchange to discuss the ...

Your first glimpse of Crater Lake is absolutely breathtaking! Its deep blue waters are unmatched anywhere else. How did ...

The date of the last snow varies year-to-year, but here's when the season typically ends and the latest it has snowed.

The Lee-Janouch House in Medford was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its unique architecture.

The Lee-Janouch House in Medford is one of Oregon's latest entries in the National Register of Historic Places.

The Oregon Badlands is the strangest wilderness in Oregon, with no mountains, lakes or streams. This desert landscape east of ...

Another honor for Hocking Hills State Park. It ranks among the "The 50 Most Beautiful Places in America" according to Condé ...

A Portland college ranks among the "most beautiful" campuses in the U.S., according to a national travel magazine.