Oregon lawmakers want to kill a wildfire risk map meant to identify areas of high risk that has become a lightning rod for ...

Massachusetts-born soldier Lt. George Derby led a dual life as an Army topographer of significant ability and an ingenious humorist. Derby penned amusing satires, burlesques and books under the pen na ...

A new study found that the Central Oregon aquifer holds 80 cubic kilometers ... but also on the eastern side of the Cascades topographic crest. There’s a tremendous amount of water coming ...

By Amy McDermott for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Broadcast version by Mark Richardson for for ...

Wildfires have been a growing problem in Oregon for the last few years and there is an ongoing debate in Salem about how to best address the issue.

Republican lawmakers want to repeal the statewide wildfire risk assessment map, claiming it has skyrocketed insurance rates and harmed land values.

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek paused referrals for wildfire hazard map appeals on Monday, which come amid calls from state ...

Deschutes County won’t join others that have asked the state to walk back its map assigning a wildfire hazard level to every ...

The Oregonian/OregonLive created a new interactive map that shows how much snow was estimated to have fallen in specific ...

The point of the Wildfire Risk Map, first published in 2022, was to inform lawmakers and agencies like the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Oregon State Fire Marshal’s Office about where to ...

The Oregonian/OregonLive created a new interactive map that shows how much snow was estimated to have fallen in specific areas across Oregon, Washington and the contiguous United States.