PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Seventeen endangered northwestern pond turtle babies are settling into the Oregon Zoo’s conservation lab this summer, where they’ll grow until they’re strong enough to survive ...

An Oregon federal court declined to enjoin the Bureau of Land Management from logging and constructing roads in southern Oregon, as requested by conservation groups who said the project would impact ...

COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE, Ore. (KPTV) - Nineteen northwestern pond turtles that were cared for at the Oregon Zoo were released into the wild last week. The turtles were gathered from wild sites and have ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Nineteen northwestern pond turtles have been growing in the Oregon zoo’s lab, and now they’re heading back to nature. Conservationists took the endangered turtles to ponds ...

YAMHILL COUNTY, Oregon — Conservationists in Oregon are racing to protect one of the state’s only native freshwater turtle species from becoming endangered. The Northwestern Pond Turtle, a semiaquatic ...

A population of rare Western painted turtles appears to be thriving near Portland. While surveying an urban wetland in 2007, Gresham urban ecologist Laura Guderyahn stumbled across the only known ...

PORTLAND (AP) - Some Oregon Zoo animals are headed back to the wild. The zoo is releasing about 55 endangered Western pond turtles that have spent the past 11 months under lights to simulate perpetual ...

KOIN 6 Chief Meteorologist Josh Cozart captures ominous storm views over Ridgefield, WA, along with a rainbow and lightning at sunset on Friday, April 10, 2026. A woman is dead and a man is injured ...