The Alder Springs Fire grew to 2,500 acres by the morning of June 17 and brought evacuation orders in areas northwest of Redmond including parts of Cove Palisades State Park at Lake Billy Chinook. The ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Officials announced Thursday that the Alder Springs Fire burning in Jefferson and Deschutes counties was human-caused. The Central Oregon Incident Management Team says that ...

Wildland firefighter crews continued to battle a large, wind-driven brush fire on Tuesday that has burned over 2,500 acres along the border of Jefferson and Deschutes counties. The fire has 0% ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Oregon — Gov. Tina Kotek has, for the second time this summer, invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act, this time for the Alder Springs Fire in Jefferson County. Kotek invoked the ...

CROOKED RIVER RANCH — For many Crooked River Ranch residents, the Alder Springs Fire has come a little bit too close for comfort. “The fire came within a block of our house,” said Kim Herschberger, a ...

CROOKED RIVER RANCH, Ore. (KTVZ) -- One of the key reasons firefighters were able to stop the spread of the fast-moving Alder Springs Fire this week was a fuels reduction project done in the area five ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Alder Springs Fire, which sprang up in Jefferson County on Monday, continued growing overnight while remaining completely uncontained. The Federal Emergency Management ...

A vigil was held tonight in Portland to honor a husband and wife who were shot by federal agents in Portland, and a U.S. citizen killed by ICE in Minneapolis. Oregon confirms first measles cases of ...

CROOKED RIVER RANCH, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Firefighters have a relatively new and increasingly useful tool - drones - to use in various ways to help fight wildfires like the Alder Springs Fire. On Thursday, ...

SALEM, Ore. — A new wildfire that broke out Monday in Jefferson County is prompting Level 3 evacuations. The Alder Springs Fire began at midday and had grown to 1,500 acres by 5 p.m., according to a ...