Massachusetts-born soldier Lt. George Derby led a dual life as an Army topographer of significant ability and an ingenious humorist. Derby penned amusing satires, burlesques and books under the pen na ...

Hayden Island has borne several names. For four decades, it was best known for the Jantzen Beach amusement park. Today, a spread-out shopping center and residential neighborhood inhabit the same sandy ...

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

such as the annexation of Texas (1845), the Oregon boundary settlement, which established the 49th parallel as the official boundary between the U.S. and Canada (1846), and the war with Mexico ...

such as the annexation of Texas (1845), the Oregon boundary settlement, which established the 49th parallel as the official boundary between the U.S. and Canada (1846), and the war with Mexico ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek paused referrals for wildfire hazard map appeals on Monday, which come amid calls from state lawmakers to repeal the maps altogether. Kotek ...

The point of the Wildfire Risk Map, first published in 2022, was to inform lawmakers and agencies like the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Oregon State Fire Marshal’s Office about where to ...

Francis Parkman’s 1849 book “The Oregon Trail” recounted the author’s harrowing travels through America’s frontier, including an 1846 stop ... to the Indian territory a few miles west.

The Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission decides to postpone release of a sage grouse habitat maps for Grant County, following resistance from county residents who fear those maps ...