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Oregon’s 2025 wildfire season hit us with a devastating start. My heart breaks for the 56 families who lost everything when ...
The bill repeals a map meant to identify parts of Oregon at high risk of wildfires that became a lightning rod for anger from ...
Four years of work and multiple drafts later, the controversial Oregon wildfire hazard map has gone up in smoke. In a unanimous decision, a Senate committee approved Senate Bill 83, which would ...
Draft versions of the revised statewide wildfire hazard and wildland-urban interface maps has been made available to the public for review and comment on Oregon State University’s Wildfire Risk ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Forestry has published a draft of its new “wildfire hazards” map, which identifies the areas of the state most threatened by wildfires.The Oregon ...
July 03, 2023 at 5:12 pm PDT. You are here. Three simple words, but freighted with meaning. What is the Fourth of July, after all, but an occasion to remind ourselves where we live and why we ...
The map, created by the Oregon Department of Forestry at the legislature's behest, is now so universally despised that SB 83 sailed through the Senate last month with unanimous support.
After Oregon’s devastating 2020 Labor Day fires, the Legislature passed a bill that was supposed to lead to more wildfire awareness and resilience. But the resulting map led to a huge backlash ...
It's another talented player set to join Oregon, and Lherisse is in the Class of 2026. After the decision came, Oregon head coach Dan Lanning took to X with a simple reaction: All he posted was a ...
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced a pardon for simple possession of marijuana, a move that will impact an estimated 45,000 individuals and will forgive more than $14 million in fines and fees.
The Durkee Fire in eastern Oregon has become the largest wildfire in the U.S. Here’s what to know about its location, spread and containment efforts.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) announced on Monday that she is pardoning prior offenses for simple marijuana possession, removing more than 47,000 convictions from individual records. This move will af… ...