In western Oregon, public forests that once fueled rural prosperity — and later came under strict habitat protections that ...

For decades, it seemed like Oregon’s south coast city of Coos Bay couldn’t catch a break — at least not economically. The timber industry mostly fled, taking hundreds if not thousands of jobs with it.

A proposed $2.4 billion port project in Coos Bay could bring 1.5-mile-long trains through several Oregon towns multiple times a day. The Pacific Coast Intermodal Port project would involve dredging a ...