Governor Tina Kotek on Wednesday morning declared a State of Emergency across Oregon due to the increasing threat of wildfires, warning that high temperatures and dry conditions are expected to fuel ...

A lawyer, scientist and former manager at the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services will become the new director of the ...

The proposal would raise Portland’s existing parks levy by 75%, from 80 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value annually ...

The Cram Fire reached 77,158 acres as of July 17, remaining the state's largest blaze and growing nearly 13,000 acres since ...

Oregon Governor Kotek invokes Emergency Conflagration Act due to the Cram Fire in Jefferson and Wasco counties.

The state is in critical fire danger because of “extreme high temperatures” that forecasters say will last for an extended ...

Although some businesses have yet to see the effects of changing federal policies, Gov. Kotek previously noted Oregon is ...

While the state hopes to complete the cleanup phase within months, long-term recovery could take far longer — as long as five ...

The Board of Forestry has long had the power to hire and fire the state forester. Then lawmakers passed a bill transferring ...

Oregon is in a state of emergency due to the ongoing threat of wildfire. Governor Tina Kotek issued the emergency declaration yesterday, effective immediately. The governor says hot ...

Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan initiates the company's largest-ever layoff, cutting over 5,000 jobs in a radical overhaul to reverse deep financial losses.

Hundreds of Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) workers have been laid off and the agency administers say services ...