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An experiment involving dog treats suggests our canine pals may understand the difference when a human withholds a treat by accident and when they do so on purpose. But don't press your luck.

The author of the magisterial work A Short History of Nearly Everything turns his sights inside, but without the magic touch of the past that made his very big books transcend the common textbook.

When the Douglas Memorial Bridge was built to span the Klamath River in Klamath, Calif., in 1926, it drew immediate controversy because its piers,…

Dropping out of high school to raise Tibetan yaks on a western Oregon farm may not be the easiest career path. But to 21-year-old Nick Hazelton, it was…

The artwork, a digital collage called "Everydays — The First Five Thousand Days," signals a new milestone for the increasingly popular market for nonfungible tokens, or NFTs.

The present-day Tolman Creek Road connects two major traffic arterials in Ashland, Oregon Route 66, also known as Ashland Street, and Oregon Route 99,…

Josef Slowikowski was born in Poland and grew up in a small village near Warsaw. At age 17 he worked in the Nazi forced labor camps until the liberation.…

Elevators were a big deal in large cities after the turn of the century, but Southern Oregon buildings tended to sprawl rather than stack.Early elevators…

Here’s a tall tale from Curry County recounted by Bill Wallace for the Curry Historical Society. It goes like this:Once there was a fellow known for…

The insurrection at the Capitol was just the latest chapter in America's ongoing battle over race, writes NPR host Sam Sanders. "Once you see it as such," he says, "it all makes a lot more sense."