The gesture comes as county commissioners face pressure from property owners — mostly in rural areas — to advocate against ...

The team from Southern Oregon University’s Laboratory of Anthropology in Ashland will search for human ashes among layers of ...

The state says it is concerned with fire danger. Their solution is a fire map so that the citizens can be in charge of fire danger. This shifts the responsibility to the homeowner when the fire ...

The latest version of the Oregon ... map is inconsistent. For example, along Rhododendron Lane in Mount Hood Village, houses that are right next to each other have drastically different fire ...

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 ...

For the second time in two years, Oregon lawmakers want to kill a map ... Please help us as we repeal the fire maps,” said Sen. Noah Robinson, R-Cave Junction. Robinson introduced a bill ...

Even state Sen. Jeff Golden, D-Ashland, whose 2021 bill called for the map said he thinks it needs to go. State Sen. Anthony Broadman, D-Bend, told the Oregon Senate on Thursday he wants the map ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek paused referrals for wildfire hazard map appeals on Monday, which come amid calls from state lawmakers to repeal the maps altogether. Kotek ...

Oregon lawmakers from both parties are scrambling to respond to a sagebrush rebellion against a state-issued wildfire hazard map. On Feb. 17, Republican lawmakers convened en masse in Salem to savage ...

The bill is sponsored by state Sen. Janeen Sollman, D-Hillsboro, who said in a news release that fire stations in her district have already phased out their use of flame retardants that contain PFAS.

Monday, Oregon Republican legislators are coming ... but state law makes it illegal for insurance companies to use the map to do so. He wants to look at those items separately and put them into a ...