While our state is home to four spots run by the National Park Service, only one, Crater Lake, is a full-fledged national park. Compare that to Washington’s three national parks or California’s whopping nine. Even neighboring Nevada has two.

A Klamath Falls man was sentenced to life in prison Friday after being convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two women in separate incidents and holding one of them in a makeshift cell constructed from cinder blocks,

A Stagecoach man was arrested Wednesday and faces multiple sexual offense charges in Oregon, according to a news release from the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office.

According to Oregon and California’s fire departments, trucks were stopped in Davis, California, just outside Sacramento, for maintenance and safety checks, and those trucks continued onward. Photos and news coverage confirm that trucks from other states were assisting firefighters in Los Angeles.

Oregon State Police on Monday released the identity of a 21-year-old Nevada man who was struck and killed by a semi-truck last week while crossing Highway 97 on foot north of Madras.

The previously unmapped aquifer is estimated to be more than three times the size of the Lake Mead reservoir in Nevada.

One cache, found along the borders of Nevada and Oregon, potentially holds as much as 40 million metric tons of lithium, while Chinese state media said reserves had been found that upped its share of global lithium supplies from 6% to 16.5%, although details were scant.

It was chaos week in the Mountain West as the conference’s top four NCAA Tournament contenders — Boise State, New Mexico, San Diego State and No. 22 Utah State

Attorney General Dan Rayfield has joined other states in Texas gun rights cases in support of Biden administration rules requiring background checks and banning conversion devices that turn handguns into rapid-fire weapons.

Eggs are nearly 40% more expensive now than they were a year ago, the Labor Department said this week. It’s about to get even worse, one expert says.

Negasi Zuberi, who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman in 2023, is expected to receive a life sentence on Friday for his crimes, as prosecutors argue that he will always seek another victim

New Jersey Democratic Attorney General Matt Platkin said his state and others with Democratic attorneys general, plan to intervene in cases already in the court system.