Anti-government militants who seized a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon earlier this year conspired to intimidate government workers and steal property, a heavily armed invasion that was not protected by the U.S. Constitution, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

The little-known history of Chinese farmers and vegetable peddlers in Portland [Oregon]. By Putsata Reang.

Nine living marijuana plants will be displayed at the Oregon State Fair in a first of its kind event for the United States starting next Friday. The exhibit of the non-flowering, immature plants brings pot cultivation more into the agricultural mainstream less than two years after Oregon voters legalized recreational marijuana. The Oregon Cannabis Business Council, which organized the exhibit, says it's the first time live cannabis will be shown at a state fair anywhere in the U.S.

Some of the world’s largest, oldest fish live in Oregon. Why anyone would want to vandalize them, even abduct them, takes explaining. By Adrian Shirk.

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupier Ryan Bundy filed a series of court motions late Thursday, declaring himself a sovereign citizen who isn’t subject to federal laws. By Ryan Haas.

It’s known as a modern-day hub of progressivism. but its past is one of exclusion. By Alana Semuels. (July 22, 2016)

Steve Grasty, Harney County judge, keeps his job until the end of the year as voters defeat a recall measure. He pressed occupation leader Ammon Bundy to leave the rural Oregon county. By Les Zait. (June 28, 2016)

Ryan Bundy, a protester who helped lead the Oregon militia standoff, attempted to escape jail with a rope made of bedsheets, federal prosecutors alleged in court on Monday. The incarcerated rancher, however, denied that he was attempting to break out of jail in Portland and said he was simply “trying to practice braiding rope”. Bundy, 43, is one of 26 protesters charged in the federal case surrounding the January takeover of the Malheur national wildlife refuge in rural Harney County and is scheduled to face a trial in September.

Ammon Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy and their co-defendants could have iPads in their jail cells, as long as their attorneys preload the devices with the discovery documents and videos they need to prepare for trial, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office would arrange to have the devices charged to ensure the defendants could use them in their cells during the day. The Bundy brothers — who are among 26 defendants indicted on federal conspiracy and weapons charges...

Backers of a Hood River County ballot measure to block a proposed water bottling plant in Cascade Locks are accusing Nestlé of illegally hiding its contributions to a political action committee opposing the measure. They say they will be filing...

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Arguably the most influential wolf in America was killed last week. Who was he? By Wes Siler.

A fungus offers a complicated lesson in late-capitalist logistics and survival. By Miranda Trimmier.

Oregon decides: no more coal and twice the renewable energy.

“If the sheriff of Baker County would not close down Copperfield's saloons, the governor told the press, then he would send his five-foot-three-inch tall, 104-pound private secretary, Miss Fern Hobbs, to do the work.” By Joe Blakely.

A writer finds camaraderie and despair inside the Oregon standoff. By Hal Herring.

The FBI says it hasn't found any rigged explosives or booby traps at the national wildlife refuge in Oregon that had been seized by an armed group.

A friend of occupier David Fry was streaming online through an open phone line to the occupiers as authorities made what appeared to be a final push to end the 40-day old occupation.

Anger erupted in front of the county courthouse in Burns, Ore., Monday as anti-government protesters in town for a rally met a wall of locals sick of outsiders trying to start a movement there.

There is a group of arachnids called Cryptomaster, known for being comparatively huge. Scientists recently discovered another species of this large group in Oregon forests.