Oregon lawmakers aim to speed up the process for renaming dozens of creeks, lakes, mountains and other sites that still hold ...

Whychus Creek, renamed in 2006, was previously one of several locations in Oregon named after a slur used against Indigenous ...

Researchers say they are now trying to figure out where exactly the minuscule plastic particles may be heading from the Matagorda Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. The Bay is home to a plastics factory ...