Land

The Portland Water Bureau will pause construction on its 2 billion dollar Bull Run water filtration system east of Gresham, following a dispute between Oregon land use officials and Multnomah County.

President Donald Trump has nominated a longtime oil and gas industry representative to oversee an agency that manages a quarter-billion acres of public land concentrated in western states.

More than a million acres of wildlands in Eastern Oregon could be preserved through federal legislation or a monument declaration from the president. This could be the last chance for the Owyhee Canyonlands to see additional protections for years.

Industry leaders and elected officials made their case for expanding Hillsboro’s urban growth boundary to bolster Oregon's semiconductor industry at a hearing yesterday. But some residents and farmers say the proposal is unjustified.

A Washington state task force voted to recommend the return of land at a former youth detention facility to the Chinook Indian Nation. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and the fiscal committees of the Legislature will review the task force report in June and make a decision.

Tianqiao Chen, with nearly 200,000 acres in Oregon, is the second largest foreign owner of U.S. land, according to land ownership publication The Land Report. His stake has drawn ire from an Oregon Republican.

A task force created by the Washington State Office of Financial Management may soon recommend the return of nearly 23 acres to the Chinook Indian Nation, including buildings that could support the cultural survival of the first people of that land.

Land trusts in Oregon are beginning to transform from their white-led roots, toward models based on Indigenous values and leadership.

Rumors of the Lloyd Center's death have been greatly exaggerated. Developers of the iconic Portland shopping mall are focusing on community feel as they plot next steps.

The Snoqualmie Indian Tribe has purchased thousands of acres of ancestral forestlands in East King County.