This is exactly what the residents of Bend, Oregon, did circa 2009, when they invoked the state’s landmark 1973 land use law and prevented houses from being built in a fireplain by instead directing ...

Bend added the tract into its urban growth boundary in 2023 through a special process legislated two years earlier by Oregon House Bill 3318, which prescribed the sale to benefit state funding for ...

Bend is one of three Oregon cities that so far have expressed open interest in leveraging a one-time, 100-acre urban expansion unlocked by Senate Bill 1537, which Gov. Tina Kotek signed earlier ...

Lee had initially proposed to sell between 2.2 million to 3.3 million acres of public land in Oregon, Washington and nine ...

The Bureau of Land Management announced it is accepting bids to harvest timber on seven parcels in western Oregon, totaling 1 ...

Nothing beats the Cascades alpenglow view from Dana Madison’s front porch in Bend. The pink cast of the mountain range doesn’t get old, even after more than 40 years in central Oregon’s most ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – If you visit an open piece of land anywhere in Oregon, be it scenic or mundane, and can’t tell whether it’s public or private – and if it's public, what federal, state ...

The most recent USDA Census of Agriculture shows Oregon as losing 666,500 acres in the five years preceding 2022, or about 4.2% — higher than California’s loss of 1.4%, said Johnson.