Oregon officials are adopting significant updates to farmworker housing. Farmworker advocates say the rules don’t address all ...

Some farmworker advocates say many farms can afford to pay workers more, and worry employers could avoid accountability.

Oregon farm workers may be looking forward to better living conditions, but it’ll come at a cost that some farmers say ...

A sign warns people to stay out of forest on a tract of privately owned land in 2024 near Alsea. A record 1.9 million acres ...

A 66-year-old male teacher at Banks High School was arrested Tuesday on charges of second-degree sexual abuse and luring a minor, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO).

Farmworker wages, benefits and safety protections in Oregon would be regulated by a new state labor standards board under a ...

The couple’s arrival in Oregon — two people in their early 30s, farming less than two acres — went against the basic demographic trend in American agriculture. The average U.S. farm is 441 ...

The challenge follows a yearslong saga between Oregon’s Department of Agriculture and local residents and farmers, who have pushed back against plans for a chicken farm they say could pollute ...

But as the waters flow, so do a host of dangerous farm pollutants, contaminating drinking water wells in the valley and through the adjacent Lower Umatilla Basin across the state line in Oregon.

And now some farm owners say they’re having to make tough decisions. Oregon’s $5 billion agriculture industry employs more than 90,000 farmworkers, many of whom are Mexican immigrants or Latino.