The bill, as it currently stands, would require incarcerated individual hand crew members from county jails to be paid an ...

A bipartisan U.S. Senate bill seeking to centralize wildland firefighting operations and set a national wildfire standard response time has been introduced to Congress by Sens. Tim Sheehy, R-Montana a ...

Formerly incarcerated firefighters stood alongside advocates of Assembly Bill 247 on Tuesday, advocating for an increase in the hourly pay rates for inmate hand crews. “I felt like it was a great way ...

East End brush fires shocked some residents and evoked memories of those who lived through the Sunrise Fire of 1995.

Gov. Mark Gordon on Tuesday expressed his support for the contents of Senate File 152, "Wildfire management-amendments." ...

Oregon lawmakers are considering a legislative package that would provide some protection to utility companies whose ...

James Piereson on the real problem in Washington.

A key regulator voted to move forward with construction rules that will require most new buildings to be powered by ...

Among the proposals is a bill that would force more inspections of power lines, which a committee concluded ignited a blaze ...

The Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental advocacy group, opposed Senate Bill 610 last year, which sought to ...

Fire Marshal Bill Smith acknowledged that arson investigations are often complex, as perpetrators can be very creative in how they set fires, making it difficult to identify them. “Arsonists can ...