Mark Owens, the Republican from Crane whose district includes Baker County, believe the map mistakenly places some properties within the high risk zone even though the owners have taken steps, such as ...

The combination of rain and melting snow during a late February warm spell caused streams to rise in parts of Baker County but none was close to flood stage and no highway closures were reported.

Lia Spiegal missed the point of my column in her response. But she recognized all the general relationships I described with large trees and water are true. Yes, there is variation in natural systems.

Though juniper is a native Western species, fire suppression and other factors have caused the trees to behave like invasive weeds since European settlement of the West. Each tree consumes between ...

Portland wants to plant 660,000 trees over the next 40 years and launch a citywide and city-managed street tree maintenance program that will take the financial burden off residents. A draft of ...

Washington State Tree Fruit Association President Jon DeVaney said the association’s board members are frugal and want state and federal governments to be frugal, too. “That being said ...

The fringe tree gets its name from its clouds of fleecy white, softly fragrant flowers that hang from the branches in late spring and early summer. Other common names for it in the South are grancy ...