The bill repeals a map meant to identify parts of Oregon at high risk of wildfires that became a lightning rod for anger from ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Oregon lawmakers have voted to repeal the state's contentous wildfire hazard map, which subjected ...

The state tried to link building codes to hazardous areas, provoking a yearslong backlash from rural communities.

The system is based on new statewide wildfire hazard maps that classify each of Oregon’s 1.9 million taxable properties as carrying a low, medium or high wildfire hazard.

But in eastern Oregon, a small newspaper called the Malheur Enterprise in Vale is bucking the trend. The paper has served Malheur County for more than 100 years.

Rosebud Media closed a sibling paper, the Ashland Daily Tidings, in 2021. The Medford metropolitan area is home to nearly 224,000 and is the biggest population center in southern Oregon.

An Oregon weekly newspaper has had to lay off its entire staff and halt print after 40 years because its funds were embezzled by a former employee, its editor said, in a devastating blow to a ...

oregon paper laments homeless crisis, high taxes, violence driving residents to other states Kevin Dahlgren, a drug and alcohol counselor, looks into an empty tent erected near occupied tents on a ...

A bipartisan coalition of Oregon lawmakers is pushing to dismantle the state’s controversial wildfire risk maps and the mandates tied to them, citing widespread concerns from rural property ...

After Oregon’s devastating 2020 Labor Day fires, the Legislature passed a bill that was supposed to lead to more wildfire awareness and resilience. But the resulting map led to a huge backlash ...

One of Oregon’s oldest operating newspapers will shut down by the end of the week. The Mail Tribune publisher and CEO Steven Saslow on Wednesday announced the newspaper’s abrupt closure on its ...

But in eastern Oregon, a small newspaper called the Malheur Enterprise in Vale is bucking the trend. The paper has served Malheur County for more than 100 years.