The gesture comes as county commissioners face pressure from property owners — mostly in rural areas — to advocate against ...

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create ...

Oregon's statewide wildfire risk assessment map has been a source of contention ... This would be done through county classification committees made up of members from the state fire marshal ...

Discussions around repealing the state wildfire hazard maps continue to move forward in Deschutes County and the state ...

The population of Multnomah County, the dense urban core of the Portland metro, rose a hair last year, even as it remained ...

The writer’s suggestion is that if Oregon cities and counties wish to leave Oregon and join Idaho, then Idaho should pay compensation to Oregon. I can support that. But I have another idea.

The lowlights include population loss in Multnomah County, regional job losses in spite of a growing national labor market, and people voting with their feet by leaving the Portland area due to ...

Tina Kotek has paused any further agency action on the state’s new Wildfire Hazard Map until the Legislature decides what to do with it. Kotek on Monday directed the Oregon Department of ...

“If you just came here to yell, I can leave — do you want me to do ... poor or working class residents across three counties in central Oregon, notes that nearly three-quarters of the voters ...

KINGWOOD, Texas (KTRK) -- Some Kingwood neighbors believe a new Harris County flood map is misleading and are worried about what it could mean for future flood mitigation projects. For Kingwood ...