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Noel Livingston slides the cursor across the charts on his computer screen and what he sees, lurking behind the zig-zagging lines and the multiple colors, is trouble.

BLY — The nation's largest wildfire continued burning in parts of Klamath and Lake counties on Friday, but crews were scaling back some night operations as hard work and weaker winds helped re…

The Bootleg Fire, which has destroyed an area half the size of Rhode Island, was 40% surrounded Friday after burning some 70 homes, mainly cabins, fire officials said.

BILLINGS, Mont. — Smoke from wildfires in the western U.S. and Canada is blanketing much of the continent, including thousands of miles away on the East Coast. And experts say the phenomenon i…

BLY — Lower winds and better weather helped crews using bulldozers and helicopters battling the nation’s largest wildfire in Klamath and Lake counties while a Northern California wildfire cros…

The nation’s largest wildfire, Oregon’s Bootleg Fire, grew to 624 square miles overnight, but fire crews continue to make progress on controlling it.

PORTLAND — Smoke and ash from massive wildfires in the American West clouded the sky and led to air quality alerts Wednesday on parts of the East Coast as the effects of the blazes were felt 2…

Eastern Washington land managed by the state Department of Natural Resources will be closed indefinitely to recreation beginning Friday.

PORTLAND — The threat of thunderstorms and lightning has prompted officials in fire-ravaged Oregon to ask for help from outside the Pacific Northwest to prepare for additional blazes as many r…

PORTLAND — The threat of thunderstorms and lightning has prompted officials in fire-ravaged Oregon to ask for help from outside the Pacific Northwest to prepare for additional blazes as many r…

Snake River Complex, nation-leading Bootleg Fire illustrate heavy activity in prolonged extreme heat.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is withdrawing a Trump-era rule that would have significantly rolled back critical habitat protections for the northern spotted owl in Oregon, Washington and…

Think Wild, a wildlife rehabilitation center in Bend, is seeing first-hand how the historic heat wave last month and recent wildfires are affecting animals across Central Oregon.

Baker County has so far missed the big wildfires burning in Oregon and elsewhere in the West, but the county hasn’t avoided the most noxious of their byproducts.

The nation's largest wildfire torched more dry forest in Oregon and forced the evacuation of a wildlife research station Monday as firefighters had to retreat from the flames for the ninth con…

A wildfire near Swamp Wells Trail one mile south of Boyd Cave and around nine miles south of Bend ignited Sunday afternoon.

SPOKANE, Wash. — The record-shattering heat wave in the Pacific Northwest prompted fishing and conservation groups to ask a federal court Friday to order more spill from dams on the lower Snak…

SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric equipment may have been involved in the start of the big Dixie Fire burning in the Sierra Nevada, the nation's largest utility reported to California…

Washington farmworkers must be provided smoke-filtering masks when air quality reaches the threshold that federal regulators consider "unhealthy" for the public, the state Department of Labor …

SPRAGUE RIVER -- Youth pastor Matt Wolff and his wife, Jennifer, followed God's direction when they settled at the end of a rutted dirt track in the pine forests above this Southern Oregon town.