Mike Connolly discusses Ashland's recruiting efforts for its Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) and the upcoming October training by Ashland Fire & Rescue.

Several Northwest counties and the U.S. Forest Service are working to reduce the risk of fires overtaking key evacuation routes.

Multiple evacuation shelters have opened in a region that has experienced a string of large wildfires in recent years.

The Oregon Department of Transportation said Friday that Oregonians who travel this weekend and in the days ahead should prepare for road closures.

Two additional deaths were reported Friday morning by the Oregon State Medical Examiner, bringing the suspected death toll of the July 2024 heat wave to 16.

During one of Oregon’s most scorching heat waves, two individuals died from suspected heat exposure in southwest Oregon, bringing the state total to seven.

Firefighters are making “good progress” on a 1,500-acre wildfire that began growing quickly in the Rogue Valley Sunday afternoon in forest lands outside of Eagle Point, about 20 miles northeast of Medford, Oregon, according to the Oregon Department of Forestry.

Since last August, Ashland’s evacuation task force has been working on developing better protocols for mass evacuations.

The House Freedom Caucus has said environmental and union wage regulations should be waived if federal money is used to rebuild Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge.

The Medford City Council will vote Thursday on an ordinance to use $1.4 million in Department of Justice funding on new radio equipment for first responders and public works employees.

One researcher says it has become "standard" for any unexpected event "to be run through a filter of conspiracy theories based on the personal brand of the person spreading the theory."

A Nehalem Bay nonprofit hosts an emergency food cooking contest with a twist in an effort to bring more awareness around natural disaster preparedness.