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Nearly 300 firefighters have brought the more than 52,000-acre Cinder Butte Fire west of Riley to 60 percent containment, with full containment…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Department of Agriculture says the state’s nursery industry was the top commodity in 2016. The Capital…

The Whitewater Fire has grown to 5,421 acres and poses a risk to firefighters and public safety, officials said Saturday night as they expanded the…

A fire traced to a sauna heater caused an estimated $85,000 to a northeast Bend gym on Saturday, officials said. Crews responded around 11:30 a.m. to…

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) – Oregon officials plan to use rock salt this winter on the section of Interstate 84 between Boardman and the Idaho border…

Scheduling an eclipse during the peak of fire season was bad foresight. But, it’s coming and so are people from all over the world. Now the…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A Multnomah County jury has awarded a Coos Bay married couple more than $4.5 million after the husband suffered lifelong…

A fire that caused $100,000 damage to a northeast Bend home Friday night was traced to a failed portable air conditioner, officials said. Bend Fire…

Prineville police and Crook County sheriff’s deputies are looking for a man and woman who refused to stop in a pickup truck leaving an area of…

(Update: Wildfire east of Hampton reduced to 52,223 acres in mapping; new udpate) The Cinder Butte Fire east of Hampton was reduced by new mapping to…

(Update: Police say child started fire) Firefighters on Thursday night stopped a quarter-acre brushfire near a northeast Redmond park.The fire…

The Spruce Lake Fire exhibited very active fire behavior Thursday as it continued to spread toward the rim of the caldera at Crater Lake National…

Our Thursday KTVZ.COM Poll asked: What’s your favorite part of the county fair? Here’s what folks chose: What’s your favorite part…

ODOT is warning last-minute travelers they could miss it all if they wait until Monday, Aug. 21 to hit the road. The total solar eclipse that morning…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police arrested a Canadian man accused of biting a 14-year-old girl on the right breast during a Green Day concert in…

The Ridgeview High School Ravens cheerleading team recently returned from the National Cheerleaders Association cheer champ at Oregon State…

Several days of intense heat pushed Northwest temperatures above the 100-degree mark, sending regional summertime power consumption to record highs,…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – An appeals court overturned the conviction of an Oregon man with bipolar disorder who attacked a hunter while naked and…

The Deschutes County Road Department will begin paving Baker Road, Lakeview Drive, and River Woods Drive on Monday, August 7 . Paving will continue…

(Adding Friday morning update) PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Officials say a wildfire east of Salem in the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness has prompted hiker…