Under Oregon’s open range law, a ranch isn’t liable for its cattle causing a car accident on an interstate highway, according to the state’s Court of Appeals. The appellate court has affirmed the ...

Large, open ranches are often the last wide-open spaces left between growing towns and expanding highway networks. Across ...

PORTLAND — It was 11:30 at night and Roxann Stout and her adult daughter Jesica Galligher drove along Interstate 84 toward Stout’s home in Eastern Oregon in 2019. Suddenly they saw a dead black cow ...

The notion of an open range evokes memories of the Old West, when cattle freely grazed on public land and cowboys drove herds cross-country to the stockyards. The nation’s open range dates back to the ...

A little-known legal precedent dating back to the Republic of Texas currently allows livestock to roam free in Brazos County, but thanks to two petitions started by a local man voters will be able to ...

The Grant-Kohrs Ranch in Montana, once the largest ranch in U.S. history, covered over 10 million acres spanning three states and Canada. Founded in the 1860s by Canadian fur trader Johnny Grant, the ...

Cattle graze in southern Union County as a rain squall covers part of the Elkhorn Mountains west of North Powder in 2023. PORTLAND — It was 11:30 at night and Roxann Stout and her adult daughter ...