After a bumpy time for Oregon's Department of Forestry and the abrupt resignation of its leader, Kotek wants to pick the next state forester.

Gov. Tina Kotek urged lawmakers this week to buckle down and make “hard decisions” about how to increase state funding for ...

Amid mounting criticism from the public and lawmakers from both parties, Gov. Tina Kotek has paused any further agency action on the state’s new Wildfire Hazard Map until the Legislature decides what ...

On Feb. 17, Republican lawmakers convened en masse in Salem to savage the map, the final version of which was published in ...

Wildfires have been a growing problem in Oregon for the last few years and there is an ongoing debate in Salem about how to best address the issue.

Oregon Republican legislators are coming out against the state’s wildfire hazard map and seeking its repeal. The map ...

Republican lawmakers want to repeal the statewide wildfire risk assessment map, claiming it has skyrocketed insurance rates and harmed land values.

Amid mounting criticism from the public and lawmakers from both parties, Gov. Tina Kotek has paused any further agency action ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry is accepting all appeals to the statewide wildfire hazard map up until Mar. 10, under ...

There’s been a bit of controversy since Oregon officials released the wildfire property risk maps which are intended to ...

Oregon lawmakers want to kill a wildfire risk map meant to identify areas of high risk that has become a lightning rod for ...