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Return to where wool once reigned supreme and find a once-abandoned ghost town kept alive by minimal shops, a hotel, and those who remained behind.
Shaniko, Oregon Image Credit: Kingofthedead - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0/ Wiki Commons. Shaniko bills itself as Oregon's ghost town, but it's more like Oregon's sleepy uncle.
"Almost Ghost Town" is about Thurmond, West Virginia, the smallest town in West Virginia and one of the smallest in the nation. There’s currently a population of four, and they even have a mayor ...
The tiny town on the north Oregon coast is known for its quiet, residential feel, with no small shops and few restaurants to speak of. On this week’s episode of Peak Northwest, we get into ...
Just an hour from Portland, the concrete ruins of a timber empire sit quietly at the edge of Vernonia Lake, all that remains of one of Oregon’s most ambitious sawmill operations.
Huntington Park, California, is 95.6% Latino, and as many as 45% of the residents are undocumented, according to the city.
Old country towns may be the best opportunity for those looking to get on the property ladder—and a way to revive middle America.
Texas History A Texas Ghost Town Church Gets a Second Life Ruidosa's dilapidated church was all but abandoned, until a small but dedicated movement fought to keep it alive.
MADRAS, Ore. (KTVZ)-- Rural health care was the topic of discussion at a town hall meeting Thursday night in Madras. It was a packed house at the Madras Performing Arts Center. The Oregon Nurses ...
Heading into these five town halls from August 14-23, Wyden has held 1,129 open-to-all town halls in keeping his promise to hold at least one town hall each year in each of Oregon’s 36 counties.
A man and a woman were seriously injured in a shooting during a large disturbance in Portland's Old Town neighborhood early Sunday morning.