Astoria residents may not have noticed something so constant over the years it has faded into the background: every day dozens of logging trucks rolling through town with loads of timber. These trucks ...

HINES, Ore. — A collapsed roof at the former Hines Lumber Co. timber mill symbolizes Harney County’s hard fall from its logging heyday. HINES, Ore. — A collapsed roof at the former Hines Lumber Co.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March aimed at revitalizing America’s timber industry by increasing logging on federal lands, streamlining permitting, and reducing regulatory ...

Tariffs on foreign timber and an executive order suspending environmental regulations could revive a domestic logging industry. But it's unclear if the economics will support exploitation of forests.

COLUMBIA FALLS — From the gateway on Half Moon Road, F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber looks a lot like it did in 1923. About 200 truckloads of logs roll through every week. They get dumped in muddy yards, ...

Rough & Ready Lumber, the last sawmill in Josephine County, set to close View the Slideshow >> (Gallery by The Associated Press) CAVE JUNCTION – Here lies . The last sawmill in Josephine County closes ...

PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, Alaska — Thousands of acres in southeast Alaska are ready for a second wave of logging, but is the timber industry ready to cut them? That’s the big question as the Forest ...

Rep. Dan Newhouse introduced legislation to permanently reauthorize the Timber Production Expansion Guaranteed Loan Program.

R Y Timber will indefinitely suspend operations at its Townsend sawmill, citing chronic timber supply problems. A Monday press release from the company says layoffs are expected to begin in April, and ...

A few weeks before the election, the Tri-Pro lumber mill in north Idaho shut down. It was the second mill to close in the area in six months, putting more than a hundred people out of work. While that ...