Nearly two months since the Rowena Fire tore through Wasco County, destroying 56 homes and 91 other structures, local ...

HB 2005, HB 2059, HB 2024, and HB 3321 — touch on prevention, intervention, and boosting the state’s overall response.

By Steve Wilent For The Mountain Times I’ve written several columns about the state’s wildfire risk map and the importance of ...

“It’s important to teach risk assessment and emergency response planning. “Students and staff should know how to react calmly ...

EQUITABLE, long-term and scalable interventions – beyond just emergency preparedness training – should be introduced in ...

The governor declared the state of emergency on June 20, with an expiration date of July 30. It's now extended through Nov. 2 ...

Lawmakers will reconvene in August to try to avoid mass layoffs at transportation agencies. As wildfires sweep the state, the ...

What’s currently burning? The closest fire to Portland right now is the Burdoin Fire in Washington, across the Columbia River from where the Rowena Fire burned 3,700 acres in June. Centered on Bingen ...

Cooler weather helped the 870 firefighting personnel assigned to the Burdoin Fire get a small foothold on the Columbia River Gorge wildfire but evacuation levels are expected to remain in place as Gor ...

A wildfire burning in a sparsely populated region of central Oregon has become the largest fire burning in the U.S. this year ...