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 ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers have voted to repeal the state’s contentous wildfire hazard map, which subjected homeowners in certain areas at high risk of wildfires to stricter building codes ...
Oregon lawmakers last week voted to repeal the state’s wildfire hazard maps — along with their unpopular property requirements — with only a single dissenting vote: the Legislature’s lone professional ...
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 ...
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- With the current legislative session in Salem coming to a close, lawmakers from Central Oregon are seeing many of the bills they wrote or sponsored, nearing the finish line. The ...
Nearly 850 fire personnel have been moved onto the Burdoin Fire, which has burned nearly 11,000 acres, is threatening hundreds of homes and remains the top wildfire priority in the Pacific Northwest.
Seven large wildfires continue to burn throughout Oregon as fire season kicks into high gear. In total, more than 60,000 acres have burned in the state, according to the Northwest Interagency ...
SISTERS, Ore. (KPTV) - The Flat Fire burning in the Jefferson and Deschutes counties was reported to be “fairly well under control” by the battalion chief on Monday night. The wildfire, which is ...