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

Discussions around repealing the state wildfire hazard maps continue to move forward in Deschutes County and the state ...

Over 25,000 acres of Forest Service land off China Hat Road will be closed off in May as part of the "Cabin Butte Vegetation ...

Nearly 35,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service land off China Hat Road south of Bend will be closed off to visitors and homeless encampments starting in May as the agency begins work on the Cabin Butte ...

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 ...

Deschutes County won’t join others that have asked the state to walk back its map assigning a wildfire hazard level to every tax lot in Oregon — but the map has caught plenty of heat from ...

The findings come as the Oregon Legislature is considering a bill to improve landfill methane monitoring and reporting.

Remote, wild, and scenic – this sums up Umpqua National Forest in a nutshell. We overshot our initial camping spot near a ...

Renee Skjersaa was an educator with Bend La-Pine Schools for nearly 20 years, according to her LinkedIn profile. “As longtime residents of Central Oregon, they have touched many lives ...

the most serious category on the U.S. Drought Monitor map. The park has been under some level of drought since Feb. 2024. According to the news release, “Big Bend National Park has exceptional ...