Bootleg Fire Incident Command / AP Oregon lawmakers have voted to repeal the state’s contentious wildfire hazard map, which subjected homeowners in certain areas at high risk of wildfires to stricter ...

The Oregon House voted Tuesday to repeal a controversial wildfire hazard map and home-hardening requirements that accompanied it. Rural Oregonians and their representatives in the Legislature had ...

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. This is how misinformation gets accepted as fact. A year after Oregon endures its most destructive fire season on record in 2020, state lawmakers ...

Oregon’s 2025 wildfire season hit us with a devastating start. My heart breaks for the 56 families who lost everything when the Rowena Fire burned their homes. I sympathize with the disruption in the ...

A few Oregon locations have seen drought improvements this week thanks to thunderstorm activity. The severe drought has started to peel away from the northeast ...

A lawyer, scientist and former manager at the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services will become the new director of the Department of State Lands. Kaitlin Lovell of Colton, Oregon, begins her four ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday repealing the state’s controversial wildfire hazard maps. Senate Bill 83 repeals the maps and directs state ...