Oregon updates building codes to facilitate the construction of multi-family units without mandatory sprinklers.

Authorities are trying to determine the cause of a house fire that killed a woman in South Philadelphia. After extinguishing ...

The US Forest Service is fighting to keep in place a plan to raze the equivalent of 500 Central Parks in California’s forests ...

And in December, the U.S. Department of Justice added to PacifiCorp’s legal woes. The feds filed a $900 million civil lawsuit, claiming the utility’s negligence caused a different 2020 fire in ...

The glow came from a nearby chain-link fence at the Old Gates Schoolhouse, the town’s community center. Powerful wind gusts had taken down a power line, which came to rest on the fence. The metal ...

As snow pummels Southern Oregon all hands are on deck in the emergency services world, shifting the day to day work of ...

Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway, which just reopened after last month’s devastating Palisades Fire, is closing again Tuesday ...

The threat of earthquakes, tsunamis and wildfires is turning Oregon into a state peppered with emergency caches.

LOS ANGELES — The death of William de Rothschild — the Laurel Canyon man who neighbors said claimed to be a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family — was an accident, the L.A. County medical ...

In its December service update, the Washington State Department of Transportation reported ridership of 739,000 passengers ...