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

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

Gov. Tina Kotek urged lawmakers this week to buckle down and make “hard decisions” about how to increase state funding for ...

On Feb. 17, Republican lawmakers convened en masse in Salem to savage the map, the final version of which was published in ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry is accepting all appeals to the statewide wildfire hazard map up until Mar. 10, under ...

Nearly four years ago, in the aftermath of the state’s most destructive wildfires in history, the Oregon Legislature passed a ...

A La Pine local is planning a peaceful rally this month in Salem. The focus is Oregon's wildfire hazard map. Veteran Bill ...

Republican state lawmakers held a press conference on Monday, Feb. 17, 2025 on their efforts to repeal a wildfire risk map in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Months after Oregon’s historic wildfire season burned nearly two million acres of land, destroyed dozens of homes, and injured civilians and fire responders ...

Kotek directed the state forestry department to pause any further action based on the map until the Legislature decides to ...

the Oregon Legislature passed a bipartisan package of wildfire prevention initiatives, including one that required state experts to create a map showing high wildfire risk areas statewide. The point ...

There’s been a bit of controversy since Oregon officials released the wildfire property risk maps which are intended to ...