Scientists have been sounding the alarm about a major earthquake off the Oregon coast for years, but a new study shows just ...

More than 17,000 people in Oregon, Washington and California could almost instantly be living in a floodplain, the ...

This isn’t unique to Burns. Colin Rowan, planning director for the Urban Flood Safety and Water Quality District in Portland, ...

Oregon faces an elevated wildfire risk due to a warm, dry spring and predictions of hot, dry conditions through the summer. Despite a wet winter and healthy snowpack, a dry April has rapidly dried ...

A major earthquake waiting to strike the Cascadia Subduction Zone isn’t the only natural disaster looming in the Pacific ...

A major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could sink land and expand flood zones, putting thousands more at risk.

A powerful earthquake, combined with rising sea levels, could significantly increase flood risks in the Pacific Northwest, impacting thousands of residents and properties in northern California, ...

Many new hospitals, schools, apartment buildings and other structures would be built with extra flood protection under a ...

farms and critical infrastructure up and down Oregon. The study tries to predict how bad that flooding will be. If the earthquake were to happen today, the study finds, the floodplain — the area ...