The Oregon State Marine Board is taking public comment on proposed rules that will require boaters to wear personal-flotation devices when navigating rapids classified as Class III or higher.

About 102,000 Oregon boat owners can expect next week to receive renewal notices for their motor boat registrations, and they will be the first ones to pay the new $5 fee to combat invasive species.

Oarphelia and Oarthello are not characters in a Shakespeare play. They are the names of two of the 12 races held last Sunday at Emigrant Lake during the annual "Much Ado About Rowing" regatta organized by the Ashland Rowing Club.

One of the prettiest places to float your boat just has to be Lake Billy Chinook.

As the boat embarked from the dock at Cleetwood Cove, the tour guide offered ponchos to everyone on board.

If you've got a boat or even if you don't, summer heat means it's time to get out on the water. Welcome to one of the state's least crowded lakes — Lost Creek Lake in Jackson County.

MERLIN — The Rogue Valley Sporting Clays Association will host "New Shooters Fun Day" Saturday at its Merlin range to give beginning and novice shotgunners a chance to test-drive the association's range.

Wind whipping up whitecaps across the reservoir would keep most paddlers on shore. A team of six men and women, however, defy the challenging conditions.

Drunken boaters across the country may find themselves finishing the weekend in a jail cell this week under a nationwide push to enforce sober-boating laws.

About the only right things I did with my boat last winter were to park it under cover and, just before the Christmas freeze, turn on the batteries and lower the outboard so water wouldn't collect in the propeller housing, freeze and create a very expensive crack in the aluminum.

Commuting up Interstate 5 from Ashland one day in May 2007, state fish biologist Dan VanDyke couldn't help but turn a quick eye toward a large houseboat on a flatbed trailer motoring up the slow lane.

The economic recession didn’t stop bargain-hunting outdoors lovers from making the trek to the ninth annual Jackson County Sportsmen’s and Outdoor Recreation Show at the Jackson County Expo in Central Point.

By Randy Vance

Jackson County Sheriff's marine deputies will hold their first of two weekend dry-dock inspections Saturday in White City to check boaters for safety and registration equipment before it really matters.