Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has formally requested Presidential Disaster Declarations to provide federal support for flood ...

Extreme heat warnings and heat advisories were issued across parts of the U.S. Southwest and Pacific Northwest on Friday.

While gray whales and killer whales are the most well known whales off the Oregon coast, the state boasts many other species of these majestic mammals. That’s right. More than a dozen whale species ...

A bipartisan coalition of Oregon lawmakers is pushing to dismantle the state’s controversial wildfire risk maps and the ...

Oregon lawmakers aim to speed up the process for renaming dozens of creeks, lakes, mountains and other sites that still hold ...

Oregon lawmakers are working ... a lobbyist for Deschutes County. “A lot of people misinterpreted it as a bill to create wildfire maps when actually it’s a bill just to comply with existing ...

However, Golden said that cities and counties can still require it ... They said because the map was created by Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Forestry in a “landscape ...

In Deschutes County, 20% of properties are in both the high hazard and wildland-urban-interface designations. The map ranks each property in Oregon as either low, medium or high hazard.

ECOnorthwest put rural Oregon counties under its lens, stripping out second homes from the overall totals (see map below) because including them constitutes double-counting. When economists ...

Bob Hart from Jackson County told KATU News that the maps still were unfairly putting properties in the wrong zones. "Wildfire problems in Oregon are everybody's problem, not just the property ...

In general, it would include areas mostly in Josephine and Jackson counties, outside Grants ... in 2023 “prohibits insurers in Oregon from using this map, or any statewide map, for making ...

The statewide wildfire hazard map designates all of Oregon’s 1.9 million property ... in response to feedback from elected officials, county governments and the public. Other updates to the ...