Full Coverage: Oregon standoff at national wildlife refuge

Like her husband, Carol Bundy has little faith in the federal judicial system.

A Nevada rancher who was at the center of a dramatic standoff with federal authorities in 2014 is a flight risk and should be held without bail, an Oregon judge ruled Monday.

In the end, the people in the little town of Burns never rose up in revolution against the federal government.

The armed standoff at an Oregon wildlife refuge appeared to be headed to a violent climax.

It came down to one young man. “Let me take my stand,” he said.

Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher whose refusal to pay federal grazing fees led to an armed standoff with law enforcement two years ago, was arrested late Wednesday in Portland, Ore., according to the F.B.I.

A federal grand jury indictment unsealed Thursday charges Ammon Bundy and 15 other people involved in the standoff at an Oregon wildlife refuge with a single count of “conspiracy to impede officers of the United States” — even as four of those charged remain at the refuge, refusing to surrender to FBI agents who surround them.

The FBI released video Thursday that shows Oregon State Police fatally shooting one of the men who occupied an Oregon wildlife refuge.

The number of armed occupiers of a remote wildlife refuge continued to dwindle Thursday as just four people appeared to be holding out by late morning, surrounded by a large show of federal law enforcement that has blocked off roads to the area.

As the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon dragged on for most of January, local law enforcement was spread thin and federal agents were nowhere to be seen.

The leader of the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge urged his colleagues-in-arms to “stand down” Wednesday, as a small band of holdouts vowing to fight fell under increasing pressure to surrender to the cordon of law enforcement now surrounding the sprawling facility.

Where some activists at an occupied federal wildlife refuge preached rowdyism and brimstone, Robert “LaVoy” Finicum was wistful, almost sad.

For weeks, law enforcement had kept their distance from the isolated wildlife refuge.

One person died and eight others were taken into custody Tuesday when authorities confronted an armed protest group responsible for a nearly monthlong occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon, officials said.

Search most photos of the armed occupiers who took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, and you’re liable to see a few common features.

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The rancher arrived with the evening snowfall.

The men who walked into an Oregon federal wildlife refuge Jan. 2 and declared it their own have an acute sense of the media moment.

The schools have been closed since the holidays and the front doors to the tiny courthouse are locked tight.

The law was clear: Cliven Bundy’s cattle had been grazing on public land — illegally — for years.

The people of Harney County are grateful one of their region’s thorniest issues is in the national spotlight, but have grown frustrated with the methods of the armed occupiers of an Oregon federal wildlife refuge.

After an armed group drew attention to an Oregon land-use dispute by seizing a building in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday, the government’s reaction seemed almost low-key.

The armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon, which started over the weekend as a demonstration in support of two local ranchers facing federal imprisonment, has a cast of colorful characters from across the West.

The standoff at a federal wildlife reserve in Oregon has put a spotlight on an often overlooked conflict over grazing rights on federally owned land that has played out for decades across the West.

Four days into the armed occupation of a wildlife reserve in Oregon’s rugged backcountry, and something’s still missing.

Those who know 73-year-old Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son, Steven, will tell you that the hot-tempered ranchers can sometimes be their own worst enemies.

When the armed strangers arrived over the weekend at the wildlife reserve in the remote desert outback of southeast Oregon, their leaders said they were prepared to stay for years and die fighting if they must.

The takeover of the federal Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon by armed anti-federal-government zealots might seem like a fresh crisis, but in fact we’ve been here before.

The armed militants who have taken over a national wildlife refuge in southeast Oregon need to study their country’s earliest history.

The activists occupying a federal wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon remain in good spirits despite the frigid weather, according to a Washington state woman who said she has been communicating with them.

In this remote and rugged country of snowcapped foothills, a band of gunmen and self-proclaimed defenders of the U.S.

A peaceful protest march Saturday in support of an eastern Oregon ranching family facing jail time for arson was followed shortly afterward by an occupation of a building at a national wildlife refuge.