Oregonians who live in the state’s highest-risk wildfire zones will be subject to stricter building codes and requirements.

Oregon homeowners who live in certain areas at high risk of wildfire must now meet new building and so-called defensible ...

About 6% of the state's 1.9 million tax lots meet criteria where new codes on defensible space and fire hardening will apply.

The Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon State University have released the final versions of Oregon's wildfire hazard ...

Final maps were released Tuesday by the Oregon Department of Forestry showing the wildfire hazard for every property in the ...

The same day the federal lawsuit was announced, the three-member Oregon Public Utilities Commission voted to approve Pacific ...

The revised statewide maps of wildfire hazard zones and the wildland-urban interface are complete and final versions are now available on the Oregon Explorer website, the Oregon Department of Forestry ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) has released the final version of its statewide Wildfire Hazard Map, a project that ...

A Santa Clara area house fire is currently under investigation by multiple agencies, according to law enforcement and fire ...

President Joe Biden approved a major disaster declaration for several Oregon counties after the state saw a record-breaking ...

An endangered Loggerhead sea turtle, affectionately named "Shorty," was rescued from the rocks at Short Beach, Oregon.

NewsWatch 12 has the Top 12 stories that happened this year in Southern Oregon and Northern California. From Oregon's most ...