Oregon mills have announced nearly 500 layoffs over the past year, cutting jobs in response to poor log supply, weak demand and difficulty finding qualified workers. The job cuts have hammered cities ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A Montana timber company announced it would indefinitely close its Townsend sawmill, and as a ...

As a daughter and niece of sawmill owners, I disagree with Kate Glover’s article dated March 12, “Southeast Alaskans want sustainable economies, not extractive industry, within the Tongass National ...

Newport-based timber supplier Premier Forest Products has bought rival National Timber Systems in a deal that secures the ...

DARRINGTON, Wash. — New timber jobs are coming to Washington, and they're coming to an old mill town. Jobs of the past will soon be jobs of the future in Darrington. A new kind of engineered wood ...

HOME VALLEY, Skamania County — The mill is idle now, but 30 workers used to turn logs into softwood veneer here in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge. They held down the kind of family-wage jobs ...

Premier Forest Products has acquired National Timber Systems (NTS), safeguarding an initial 160 jobs following the collapse ...

Automation was never a bad word in the logging industry. It represented a more efficient, safer way to harvest timber. But it has changed the face of the industry. Now, the demand for workers highly ...

A South Wales-based timber company has completed the acquisition of Arnold Laver's Hull site. Premier Forest Products says ...

Victorian timber workers say their communities will become ghost towns after the Victorian Government announced it will phase out the logging of native trees over the next decade. The Victorian ...

The future of the Bedford-run timber mill in Mount Gambier that has given disabled workers purpose for decades is now hanging ...