Climate change

In recent years, people who live in the fire-prone landscapes of Northern California and Southern Oregon have had to confront new realities and risks created by changing climate conditions.

As the Oregon Department of Transportation faces potential staff cuts, some raise concerns about the state’s ability to respond to severe weather and a growing backlog of maintenance projects

The Northwest needs to generate as much new electricity by 2032 as the state of Oregon currently uses.

California’s first commercial carbon-storage project is operating even though the state has yet to adopt rules required by law, 19 months after a key deadline. The oil company could collect billions in public incentives, while environmentalists and oil companies argue about how far the rules should go.

Heat advisories will be in place for most of western Oregon and far Northern California this week, just as wildfire smoke blows in west of the Cascades, the National Weather Service says.

Scientists have begun to re-deploy ocean monitoring equipment removed from Pacific Northwest waters by the Trump administration in September.

A fast-moving blaze near Yosemite is testing California’s quiet fire season as new research shows heat waves drive nearly half of summer wildfire acreage.

California’s wildfires are destroying forests faster than the state can replant them, and federal cuts are making the gap worse. One expert says the crisis is barely known — even though it could reshape half the state’s forests by 2071.

A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general, including those from Oregon, California and Washington, has joined a lawsuit seeking to end the Trump administration’s halt of onshore wind projects in the United States.

State regulators rejected utilities' proposal and ordered broader protections against power shutoffs during dangerous heat. Here's why regulators decided the utilities' proposal wasn't enough.

A California-based nonprofit will run the effort to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector, while benefiting disadvantaged communities.

Funding gaps remain the biggest obstacle to helping vulnerable Oregonians survive extreme temperatures.