Unfamiliar Friends performs Sunday at 6 p.m. at Philomath City Park as part of the Music in the Park series, bringing lively, heartfelt folksy-rock sounds.

As the federal government pushes for more logging and grazing on Oregon’s lands, state climate commissioners are calling for more ambitious goals to protect the state’s land and water so they can ...

Participation in Oregon’s voluntary statewide emergency alert system designed for natural disasters and public safety threats has been far higher in rural counties than in the Portland metro area, ...

Donna Carter and Steve Bennett retired this spring after 71 combined years teaching at Philomath High School, the only district either one ever worked for.

Bullfighters Del Rude and Wes Ireland in the arena on opening night of the Philomath Frolic and Rodeo. (Photo by Logan Hannigan-Downs/Philomath News) The Philomath Frolic and Rodeo’s three-day ...

Philomath Police and PYAC host a Hunter's Education Field Day on Aug. 22, offering required hands-on training for youth hunting certification.

New federal CDL rules are shutting immigrants and refugees out of Oregon's trucking industry — including at a driving school built to serve them.

Highway 34 chip seal work between Alsea and Philomath starts July 26, bringing daytime delays, pilot cars and loose gravel through mid-August.

Oregon forestry officials will need to manage hundreds of thousands of acres of western state forests to better support critical species, water and air quality and to decrease greenhouse gas emissions ...

The Oregon Department of State Lands is proposing for the first time to charge multinational telecommunications and tech companies for using the seafloor off the state’s Pacific Coast for fiber-optic ...

Philomath council approved sending an RFP to two qualified developers for a Main Street lot, with team selection expected at the Aug. 10 meeting.