Remote, wild, and scenic – this sums up Umpqua National Forest in a nutshell. We overshot our initial camping spot near a ...

Welcome to Silver Falls State Park, the 9,200-acre wonderland near Sublimity that somehow remains Oregon’s best-kept ...

Oregon hides a waterfall wonderland just 26 miles east of Salem that feels like stepping into a fantasy novel—minus the talking animals (though I wouldn’t rule them out entirely). Silver Falls State ...

PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN) — Oregon’s state-of-the-art facility for training seeing guide dogs is getting bigger. With $28 million in funding, the Guide Dogs For The Blind facility is adding a ton of new ...

Pee Wee Harrison recently pitched the idea to install synthetic ivy on graffiti-prone retaining walls with a goal to make the city of Portland green again.

The downtown block was formerly known as O’Bryant Square and housed a parking garage until 2023 when it was demolished. The ...

Just north of the Deschutes County Fairgrounds, the Redmond Caves, a series of five caves administered by the Bureau of Land ...

"Are you going to call it ‘A Tale of Two Bookshops’?" Craig Florence, owner of Mother Foucault's asks. We are not. The ...

There is no surer sign of springtime in Portland than the arrival of the cherry blossoms. Those pink-and-white fluffs, that ...

The Public Joy Creator is known for his Wonderwood Springs fantasy coffee shop and restaurant experience and Wonderwood Mini ...

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another. Conversations about food, music, performance, and “weird” installation art ...