The Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, operator of the BottleDrop network, announced Wednesday that it is activating its ...

Water-dropping aircraft are a key part of efforts to fight wildfires. And with the 2025 season especially fiery, these pilots have stayed busy.

HOW YOU CAN HELP: Thousands under evacuation orders as Rowena Fire grows in Columbia Gorge As of Sunday, 56 homes and another 91 structures – like sheds, barns, and shops – have been destroyed.

It’s been two months since the Rowena Fire tore through 3,000 acres, destroying dozens of homes in The Dalles. Now the area is working to clean up the debris that was left by the disaster.

It has been about three weeks since the Rowena Fire in Oregon's Columbia Gorge was put out, and the local food bank remains vital to recovery efforts. The fire burned 3,600 acres in Wasco County ...

The firm linked the Rowena Fire to the Tunnel 5 Fire, which burned on the Washington state side of the Columbia Gorge in 2023 and was caused by locomotive exhaust from BNSF Railway.

The governor declared the state of emergency on June 20, with an expiration date of July 30. It's now extended through Nov. 2.

The Rowena Fire bears troubling similarities to the Tunnel 5 Fire in 2023, just across the Columbia River Gorge in Skamania County, Washington. That blaze, which burned several hundred acres, was ...