Mt. Hood, Oregon

The gathering was called "melting mountains" because of the many mountain ranges between Seattle and Sherman County.

Nick Fisher rides his horse, Lady Liberty as Oregon standoff supporters celebrate outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Portland, Ore.

Loading logs onto the line at a mill in Glendale, Oregon.

Downtown Portland and the Hawthorne Bridge

The biennial Clipper Round the World Yacht Race puts total novices aboard some of the fastest sailboats on the sea. Two have died this year already.

North Portland resident Stacey Schroeder stands on the bluff along WIllamette Boulevard overlooking Swan Island and the Daimler Trucks North America plant, as her daughter picks dandelions in the...

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: The wide open West and now a political flashpoint. In the middle is an historic round barn, once used to break horses during the winters.

Portland, OR.

Screenshot from a promotional video by Hacking Team.

The Kalakala in Tacoma as demolition work got underway.

John Kitzhaber, Oregon's long-serving and now former governor, still faces ethics and criminal investigations.

Ambre's Port of Morrow project (right) has been rejected, creating doubt about its project at the Port of St. Helens farther down the Columbia.

Goats graze on a ridge at the edge of Zumwalt Prairie in Eastern Oregon's Wallowas.