PORTLAND — Oregon lawmakers have voted to repeal the state’s contentious wildfire hazard map, which subjected homeowners in ...

Oregon lawmakers passed an oral nicotine tax to pay for some wildfire costs, while a bill aimed at getting wildfire survivors ...

California, gripped by a housing shortage, wants to build 2.5 million homes. But it's running out of safe places to put them.

The state tried to link building codes to hazardous areas, provoking a yearslong backlash from rural communities.

As more communities are shown to be at higher long-term risk of wildfires, Rocklin and Rancho Cordova explain what they are ...

The county Board of Supervisors Tuesday directed staff to assess areas newly designated as “Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones” and recommend ways to keep them clear of homeless encampments. In ...

From the Madrid power outage to wildfires, Whisker Labs has detected voltage swings before disasters struck. Could this ...

Record funding for school, reform for civil commitment, housing changes and more passed during the 2025 session that ended June 27.

SEE YA, CEQA: Environmental groups lost one of California’s landmark environmental laws slowly, piece by piece, then almost all at once.

Two men live and work in very different worlds — one above the earth, in the dust and machines of an opencast pit; the other ...