Wildfire

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s invitation to the president-elect says Californians deserve to see them work together to address the devastation of the Los Angeles fires. Donald Trump has threatened to block disaster relief to California, and he soon will have the power to at least slow-walk aid.

State prisoners have long been a part of California’s firefighting force. Hundreds of them now are deployed in Los Angeles County.

Prominent right-wing influencers are claiming that the response to the Los Angeles wildfires was hampered by workplace diversity policies. It's part of a wider strategy to discredit those policies.

The state’s plan to fix the insurance crisis had barely rolled out when the Los Angeles fires began. Can the market recover and stabilize?

President-elect Donald Trump faulted California water policies for the devastating wildfires that are burning in Los Angeles County. The fires started because of fierce winds and extremely dry conditions.

Some Northern California cities have been soaked with almost twice their average rainfall, while southern cities are bone-dry. This season’s huge — possibly unprecedented — disparity works in favor of the state’s water supplies.

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

From a historic election to record wildfires to drug recriminalization, 2024 was a big year for state government and political news in Oregon.

Insurance companies that stopped providing home coverage to hundreds of thousands of Californians in recent years as wildfires became more destructive will have to again provide policies in fire-prone areas if they want to keep doing business in California under a state regulation announced Monday.

As the Oregon fire season trends longer and fires burn larger, those who work with Oregon’s rural forest protective associations are grappling with questions about how they will retain personnel and secure enough funding to fight the fires of the future.

Three Republican state representatives announced their proposal on the heels of an approved rate increase for PacifiCorp customers and a federal lawsuit against the electric power company.

The federal government is suing the electric utility PacifiCorp over a 2020 wildfire in Douglas County. The Archie Creek Fire burned across more than 131,000 acres, about half of that federal land, according to the legal complaint filed Thursday.