Oregon

The Western U.S. is facing drought conditions that are straining water resources, hurting agriculture and providing a fertile ground for wildfires.

Lower winds and better weather helped crews using bulldozers and helicopters battling the nation’s largest wildfire in southern Oregon while a Northern California wildfire crossed into Nevada, prompting evacuations as blazes burn across the West.

Firefighters continue to battle the Bootleg Fire just north of the California-Oregon border.

The monstrous wildfire burning in Oregon has grown to one-third the size of Rhode Island and spreads miles each day, but evacuations and property losses have been minimal compared to much smaller blazes in densely populated areas of California

The largest wildfire in the U.S. has torched more dry forest landscape in Oregon

Authorities expanded evacuations late Thursday along the eastern edge of the Bootleg Fire, currently the largest in the U.S., and worry it could merge with another blaze.

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Officials are concerned about the size and severity of the fires this early in the season.

Fierce wildfires are threatening Native American lands in the Pacific Northwest

Wildfires that have torched homes and forced thousands to evacuate are burning across 10 parched Western states, and the largest, in Oregon, is threatening California’s power supply

Firefighters are working in extreme temperatures across the U.S. West and struggling to contain wildfires, the largest burning in California and Oregon, as another heat wave baked the region, straining power grids

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The grim toll of the historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest has become more apparent as authorities in Canada, Washington state and Oregon say they’re investigating hundreds of deaths likely caused by extreme temperatures

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A suspect wanted for a fatal shooting and other violent crimes in Oregon that left three people dead, including his father, turned himself to police in Wisconsin on Sunday, authorities said.

Officers who serve on a specialized crowd-control unit in Portland, Oregon, and have responded to the city’s ongoing, often violent protests have resigned en masse after criminal charges were filed against a team member

Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek wants to expel a Republican lawmaker who allowed violent protesters into the state Capitol in December.

A 19-year-old Oregonian man was arrested on sexual assault charges in Northern California after being found with a 12-year-old girl from Chula Vista he met on an online gaming platform, authorities said Monday.

A national effort helping to bail poor and low-income people out of jail has formally announced its expansion into the Deep South