The warm and dry weather is starting to catch up with the Pacific Northwest as parts of the Beaver State fall back into ...

Waterfalls can feel like a dime a dozen in Oregon, where hundreds of documented plunges and multiple “waterfall corridors” are found in the Columbia River Gorge, Willamette Valley, Coast Range and, ...

While gray whales and killer whales are the most well known whales off the Oregon coast, the state boasts many other species ...

He voted to create the map in 2021, now he’s voted to get rid of it. Golden joined OPB’s “Think Out Loud” on Tuesday to talk about both of those votes. Push play to listen: Oregon state ...

Oregon homeowners who live in certain high-risk wildfire areas defined by the state must now meet new building codes and reduce vegetation around their homes under new “wildfire hazard maps ...

PHOTOS: New luxury hotel proposed for Oregon Coast property with $3 million view The state-developed maps — which will not affect homeowners’ insurance rates, under Oregon law — create new ...

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — Oregon has finalized its statewide maps of wildfire hazard zones and the wildland-urban interface, with the final versions now accessible on the Oregon Explorer website.

For the second time in two years, Oregon lawmakers want to kill a map meant to identify areas at high risk of catastrophic wildfires but that has become a lightning rod for anger from rural ...

An Oregon bill that would eliminate a controversial wildfire hazard map moved one step closer to reality on Tuesday after unanimously passing the Senate Committee on Natural Resources. Senate Bill ...

Nearly one million acres in Oregon have burned as 38 large wildfires remain uncontrolled across the state, including one of the nation's largest wildland fires. The majority of the blazes have ...

Hot weather, gusty winds and extreme lightning activity have spread critical fire conditions across parts of Oregon, fueling the Durkee Fire in the eastern part of the state, the nation’s ...