unmanned aerial vehicles

Amazon made news this month by announcing it will start package deliveries by aerial drone to real customers in a northern California town. In the run up to the U.S. debut, the company conducted extensive flight tests in Eastern Oregon, where it experienced a spate of crashes. Amazon said Monday the upcoming rollout of commercial drone delivery signifies the refined technology is safe and no longer experimental.

E-commerce giant Amazon confirmed to public radio that it has begun flight testing of package delivery drones at a test range in Pendleton, Oregon, as well as continuing near Seattle and elsewhere. Routine delivery of online orders to consumers by aerial drones remains a long ways off, though.

It just became easier for students to fly drones as part of their class work. The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday loosened restrictions on…

If you want to go to college to learn how to design, build, fly or fix a drone, your time has come. Many institutions of higher learning around the…

Law enforcement groups in Washington state are pushing back against possible limits on police use of drones. That happened as a task force convened by…

SALEM, Ore. – A bill that would regulate drones is dead in the Washington legislature but is still flying in Salem. An Oregon Senate panel will consider…