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April Ehrlich/JPRIn the final hours of work before members of Congress went on recess for five weeks, a bill backed by Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden to relieve natural disaster survivors from paying federal income taxes on their recovery settlements and lawyers fees passed against unexpected odds. -
Nancy Jones/InciwebThe Wrights Spring Fire has burned 46,769 acres and remains 0% contained as crews work to keep it from moving toward Klamath County communities.
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The past decade has seen a big increase in the number of days with unhealthy levels of smoke. That includes nearly every part of Oregon. -
Insurance affects the cost of rent, housing supply and recovery from disaster. -
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. -
Firefighters have kept the Grants Pass fire within it's 96-acre footprint, evacuations downgraded -
‘Oregon asks for the Utah clock,’ Gov. Tina Kotek wrote in a letter for immediate and robust aid to Oregon farmers and ranchers hit by wildfires. -
Oregon has already seen more acres burn in 2026 than in all of 2025, and fire officials warn there’s still a lot of wildfire season to get through. This story will be updated with the latest on large wildfires burning across the state Wednesday. -
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. -
People on the Warm Springs Reservation have evacuated, and other communities in Central and Eastern Oregon are threatened as more than 1 million acres in Oregon have been consumed by wildfires. -
The Bench Fire is one of several burning through Central Oregon, as hot and dry conditions continue to challenge fire crews. -
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. -
More than 1,000 people in Oregon have been evacuated from their homes because of wildfires. -
Red flag warnings stretch from the Columbia Basin to southern Oregon this weekend.
