Older pilots with unmatchable experience are key to the US aerial firefighting fleet
Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Pilot Jim Maxwell logged nearly 25,000 flight hours over five decades flying small planes in dangerous…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Pilot Jim Maxwell logged nearly 25,000 flight hours over five decades flying small planes in dangerous…
Continue ReadingLEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge has entered a not guilty plea on behalf of an escaped prisoner charged with killing a man while he was on the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The small Oregon city at the heart of a recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows cities to…
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore. announced Thursday that he and six other senators have sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — With the start of the new school year around the corner – and as a measles outbreak continues in three Oregon counties…
Continue ReadingSalem, Ore. – The Oregon Health Authority released the state’s 2023 annual report on the performance of coordinated care organizations (CCOs),…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (KTVZ) – Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Bob Casey, D-Pa., released…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) —Â Fire managers in the Pacific Northwest predicted Thursday that many wildfires currently burning in Washington and Oregon,…
Continue ReadingDURKEE, Ore. (KTVZ) — The massive, 3-week-old Durkee Fire in Eastern Oregon is nearing full containment and a management team from the Southern U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy Don Nelson Click here for updates on this story BOISE, Idaho (KIVI) — The body of five-year-old Matthew Glynn, a boy…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The public still has time to provide comments about both the draft statewide wildfire hazard map and proposed administrative…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore and Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — Seven months of investigations. Nearly 10 hours of hearings. And yet neither Boeing…
Continue ReadingBURNS, Ore. (KTVZ) — Brig. Gen. Alan Gronewold, the Adjutant General of Oregon, and senior leaders visited National Guard members deployed for…
Continue ReadingCORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – People who are lonely are more apt to have bad dreams, according to a collaboration that included an Oregon State…
Continue ReadingOregon Governor Tina Kotek has invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act for the fast-growing Town Gulch Fire in Baker County, estimated at 10,000…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore and Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — Workers on the Boeing 737 Max that lost a door plug on a January flight told federal…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Oregon Health Authority on Tuesday released its 2024-2027 strategic plan – becoming the first state health agency in the…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said Tuesday they have joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and 31…
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Justice Clarence Thomas took a previously undisclosed flight on a private jet owned by GOP megadonor Harlan Crow in…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum applauded a federal court ruling Monday that Google has violated US antitrust law with…
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