The 2-day-old Alder Springs Fire burned across 3,400 acres but reached 21% containment Tuesday, putting up far less smoke and ...

Fire officials said on Tuesday morning that they have revised the acres burned to 3,570. The fire is 37 percent contained. The Wasco County Sheriff’s Office announced on Monday afternoon that ...

Firefighters, dozers and engines worked into the night on the Alder Springs Fire burning in steep and rugged terrain on the Crooked River National Grassland, Prineville District BLM managed lands, and ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry upgrades the fire danger level for Jackson and Josephine counties amid hot temperatures, ...

House Democrats voted Friday to protect the Oregon National Guard from being used as law enforcement or deployed by the ...

Officials said Tuesday was a day of good progress on the lines of the day-old Alder Springs Fire, newly mapped at over 3,400 ...

Oregon lawmakers have wrapped up a 2025 session that will be remembered above all else for Democrats’ towering failure to get ...

Record funding for school, reform for civil commitment, housing changes and more passed during the 2025 session that ended June 27.

Ray Kresek has been struck by lightning three times. He’s watched colleagues die in fires. He saw a plane knock down a fire with dish soap. And he was among responders who pulled the bodies of 44 Air ...

Beneath layers of waste, landfills around the US have been reaching scorching temperatures, spewing toxic gases and geysers ...