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Western Oregon wildland firefighters recently completed their annual ... timber tax and oral nicotine tax. “Right now the wildfire maps have really been concerning for property owners,” she said.
Beyond this session’s obvious disappointment — a failed transportation funding bill — here’s what else flopped.
Oregon lawmakers have wrapped up a 2025 session that will be remembered above all else for Democrats’ towering failure to get ...
Record funding for school, reform for civil commitment, housing changes and more passed during the 2025 session that ended June 27.
PORTLAND — Oregon lawmakers have voted to repeal the state’s contentious wildfire hazard map, which subjected homeowners in ...
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ)-- Local legislators are reflecting on their time on the Oregon House and Senate floor as the session ...
As Eastern Oregon braces for a dry summer and heightened wildfire risk, the Pendleton Fire Department has enlisted an ...
Moderate drought has swept across western and northeast Oregon following a historically dry spring, according to the U.S.
Oregon Lawmakers passed legislation allowing property owners or landlords to evict squatters, but the law will not go into ...
Wildfire risk map angers rural Oregon residents. The map was born in 2021 when the Legislature passed Senate Bill 762 to “help Oregon modernize and improve wildfire preparedness.” It came in the wake ...
A photo provided by the Oregon Department of Transportation shows smoke from a wildfire that shut down Interstate 84 between Hood River and The Dalles in Ore., Wednesday, June 11, 2025.