Fish and wildlife experts are criticizing the new federal water plan that dictates how much water is allowed to flow down the Klamath River for the next decade.

They say the plan puts already struggling fisheries, fishing communities, and national wildlife refuges at risk, in favor of irrigators, and that too much water has been promised to too many people.

KBOO’s Helen Honey has more, in collaboration with the Oregon News Service:

On Friday a young college student was arrested when she went to the Department of Motor Vehicles in Hillsboro to  renew her drivers license.

KBOO reporter Linda Olson-Osterlund has more.

Another edition of the locally produced environmental series, Our Backyard, with KBOO's Edison Carder. This edition: Buy Nothing Day - idealistic gesture or is it something more?

Twenty-five thousand people gathered last weekend at fort Benning, Georgia, for the 18^th annual vigil to close the School of the Americas – now known as the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Studies.            

  The school has been documented to be a training ground for central and south American military officials, many of whom have engaged in torture and attacks on civilians after being trained at the School by U.S. Military officials.