After burning for two months and threatening at times to reach Sunriver and La Pine, Ore., the eastern flank of the Cedar Creek Fire is no longer considered a threat, according to Chris Orr, the incident commander trainee with Northwest Incident Team 7, which is part of the firefighting effort.
Former executives and directors of Pacific Gas & Electric have agreed to pay $117 million to settle a lawsuit over devastating 2017 and 2018 California wildfires sparked by the utility’s e…
An Oregon land use ruling has again overturned a Linn County zoning decision that would allow a landowner to subdivide a 100-acre farm forest property. The state Land Use Board of Appeals foun…
Authorities are searching for whoever left an unextinguished campfire they say led to the largest wildfire in Idaho this year that has drawn hundreds of firefighters, three of whom died. The 2…
This Thanksgiving, your pumpkin pie might have a lower carbon footprint. Farmers in central Illinois who supply 85% of the world's canned pumpkin are adopting regenerative techniques to reduce…
State regulators say it’s a coincidence some home insurance policies were revoked or became more expensive after the rollout of Oregon’s ill-fated wildfire risk map. Insurance decisions that a…
As the U.S. Forest Service makes another run at updating land management plans on three national forests in Eastern Oregon and Southeast Washington, the authors of an in-depth economic analysi…
California has temporarily banned insurance companies from dropping customers in areas impacted by recent wildfires. California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara invoked a law aimed at prote…
After a wildfire roared through northern New Mexico this summer, state and federal biologists rescued scores of Rio Grande cutthroat trout from a small stream. They were kept alive in tanks fo…
A coalition of businesses, including the Prairie Wood Products sawmill, logging contractors and ranchers, filed an antitrust lawsuit on Thursday, Sept. 15, in U.S. District Court in Pendleton …
Highway 2 northeast of Seattle remains closed to all except local residents between the towns of Index and Skykomish as firefighters battle the Bolt Creek fire. The Seattle Times reports the b…
Rain, hail and cooler weather have been helping crews battle the Cedar Creek Fire. Containment lines have increased, but crews are not out of the woods yet. The fire, around 20 miles west of L…
Colorado-based research firm BDSA projects legal marijuana sales in the U.S. will jump 8% this year to $27 billion. Much of the increase is expected to come from states that recently passed la…
A major storm that battered western Alaska over the weekend churned through Northern California on Monday after bringing early-season snow to mountains and dropping rain that helped firefighte…
WALLOWA COUNTY, Ore. — Rain and moderate temperatures kept fire activity in Wallowa County minimal over the weekend, though rainfall amounts varied significantly, officials say.
Jake Strohmeyer is the new supervisor of the Sawtooth National Forest. He will be based in Jerome, Idaho, and succeeds Bekee Hotze, who was the acting supervisor. Hotze is now Salt Lake Distri…
A class action lawsuit pursued by 14 Oregon counties against logging restrictions on state forestlands has reached the end of the road. The counties have failed to convince the Oregon Supreme …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is funding a major push to try to store more carbon in New England’s forests. The agency said Wednesday that the New England Climate-Smart Forest Partnership…
Firefighters again prevented flames from entering a Northern California mountain town and reported major progress against the week-old blaze that’s become the largest in the state so far this …
ENTERPRISE, Ore. — Containment of the Double Creek Fire in northeastern Oregon increased from 15% to 22% Sept. 13 thanks to lower temperatures, higher relative humidity and rain.
The Deschutes National Forest has increased its closures on the eastern side of the Cedar Creek Fire as the blaze has moved beyond earlier containment lines, leaving containment at zero percent.
The independent candidate for governor in Oregon, Betsy Johnson, spent almost $900,000 to gather signatures to secure a place on the fall ballot. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that late Mon…
Employees at Weyerhaeuser sites in Oregon and Washington are on strike, citing low wage increases and high health care premiums. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Worke…
IMNAHA, Ore. — What do you do when your hitch in the military fighting for your country is up? Take on a new fight, against wildfires. At least that’s what the members of the Umatilla Veteran …
Move to second-highest stage also reflects growth of individual fires, additional areas seeing action.
The U.S. Forest Service has activated two Air National Guard C-130s that have been specially equipped to fight wildfires in the West. The planes arrived Sept. 9 at the National Interagency Fir…
Southern California welcomed cooler temperatures and spotty rain Saturday as a tropical storm veered off the Pacific Coast and faded, helping put an end to a blistering heat wave that nearly o…
There are 18 large fires burning in Oregon and Washington and nearly 5,000 people on the ground fighting them in both states. Thousands of residents in Oregon are without power after utilities…
When Willamette Valley Vineyards opens its newest winery, Domaine Willamette, in the Dundee Hills about 30 miles southwest of Portland, it will be the latest building in Oregon to showcase mas…
A power utility has issued potential shutoff notices to about 12,000 customers in six counties south and west of Portland because of gusty east winds Friday and Saturday contributing to extrem…
California firefighters are struggling to gain control of major California wildfires that have grown explosively and forced extensive evacuations amid a searing heat wave. The deadly and destr…
ENTERPRISE — The weather over the next couple of days and the prospect of rain next week were bright spots in the battle against wildfires in Wallowa County, the Board of Commissioners was tol…
Roughly 200 people have been told to evacuate and sheriff’s deputies are trying to track down campers and other recreationists after a wildfire exploded in Idaho’s scenic Sawtooth National For…
Fire meteorologists say Oregon firefighters will face challenges this week as continued heat combines with windy and unstable conditions, possible thunderstorms and unwanted east winds. Foreca…
In 2020, the Almeda and South Obenchain fires ripped through Southern Oregon, destroying large sections of Ashland, Talent, Phoenix and Medford. Thousands of Oregonians were displaced. At the …
ENTERPRISE — The largest wildfire in Oregon was an active one on the Labor Day holiday.
About 300 firefighters backed by air support are building containment lines to combat a wildfire in remote eastern Oregon that forced has evacuations of campers. Officials say the Double Creek…
Containment percentage drops following infrared mapping.
A coalition of university researchers and state agencies in Oregon is betting big on the potential of mass timber to help bridge the urban-rural divide, from increasing affordable housing in P…
The fate of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument’s expansion may hinge on the president’s authority over 2.4 million acres of federal “O&C Lands” in western Oregon.
GREENHORN — A fire that broke out roughly 20 miles north of Prairie City on Aug. 22 after a storm with abundant lightning moved through the area has ballooned to 1,632 acres and is currently 0…
The Oregon Forest Resources Institute has hired Jim Paul as its executive director, bringing new leadership to the recently embattled organization. Paul is a former director of the Oregon Depa…
Idaho Power Company will pay $1.5 million to the federal government to settle allegations, which the company denies, that an equipment failure on one of its transmission lines sparked two wild…
More than 150 people recently showed up at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond to hear why the Oregon Department of Forestry withdrew its controversial wildfire risk map. "...If you ha…
Rain and cooler weather Aug. 10 slowed growth of the Woodtick and Norton wildfires in the Idaho’s east central mountains. Both lightning-caused fires are in the Salmon-Challis National Forest …
PENDLETON — The Oregon Department of Forestry’s decision to pull back and revise its wildfire risk map was a wise move, according to local elected officials.
MT. VERNON — Fire crews with the Oregon Department of Forestry, the Malheur National Forest and Grayback Forestry continued to battle a fire that broke out Monday, Aug. 1, on both sides both s…
Several large wildfires are tearing across the West, fueled by dry, windy conditions exacerbated by a heat wave that hit in late July and is continuing into early August. Four large wildfires …
MT. VERNON — Fire crews with the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Malheur National Forest are responding to a roughly 50-acre fire burning on both sides of Highway 395 North near milepost…
The combustible combination of lightning, a record-setting heat wave, a weeks-long dry spell and gale-force winds on Sunday afternoon, July 31, contributed to Baker County’s biggest wildfire s…
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is seeking contractors to help reduce wildfire fuels on the landscape — and thereby reduce wildfire danger — in Oregon and Washington. The agency on Thursday…
A tractor that plowed swathes through rangeland in northern Malheur County more than two decades ago is a major reason why the Willowcreek fire, the biggest blaze in the area so far this year,…
Firefighters shift from direct attack to containment, protection.
Investigation continues. Governor orders flags to be flown at half-staff.
