This story was originally published by ProPublica. This is how misinformation gets accepted as fact. A year after Oregon endures its most destructive fire season on record in 2020, state lawmakers ...

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I am writing from the middle of a West Coast catastrophe, where four states are confronting what officials describe as the worst U.S. disaster in nearly two decades as everything west of Interstate 5 ...

Firefighters were battling fast-spreading wildfires in California's wine country and central Oregon on Aug. 24 as hot, dry weather over the weekend increased the risk of wildfires across the western ...

Firefighters battling large blazes in central Oregon and California's wine country made gains on fires threatening thousands of homes as the region remained gripped by scorching heat and high winds.

After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that ...

Thousands of homes were under evacuation orders and warnings on Sunday from wildfires in Northern California wine country and central Oregon as crews battled the flames in dry, hot weather. The ...

Oregon wildfires damaged the sales value of nearby farmland and larger blazes tended to cause more severe negative impacts, according to a new study. After a wildfire, ag acreage located within 2 ...

Oregon wildfires burned a far smaller number of acres than last year’s historic total, but the state’s fires still destroyed more homes than normal and shut down rivers and roadways while spurring ...

The Flat Fire has destroyed four homes and six other types of buildings in central Oregon as it continues burning roughly two miles northeast of Sisters. The largest wildfire in Oregon remains under a ...

PacifiCorp spokesperson Simon Gutierrez said staff have monitored 863 fires across the state since the center opened May 3. Of those, 71 led to emergency power shutoffs. In 2023, a jury found ...