• Plan foresees less haze in Oregon's vistas The Columbia River Gorge and other areas will clear up as PGE cuts coal plant emissions, according to a state blueprint
Here's the forecast on Oregon's sometimes hazy vistas: They should be clearer at the Columbia River Gorge, Mount Hood and Hells Canyon over the next decade. But the view won't noticeably improve at Crater Lake and scenic parts of the Coast Range.

• Oregon's rural landowners in legal limbo
A percolating batch of legal rulings -- one in federal court and several in state courts -- have thoroughly dissolved any agreement Oregonians thought they had achieved on property rights.