Powerful winds and wildfire warnings persist in several states, with some areas still fighting existing flames.

The Northwest Interagency Coordination Center released their March Fire Weather Outlook which looks as far out as June.

Amid efforts by the Trump administration to purge the federal workforce, a group of Democratic lawmakers in Washington state ...

There are plenty of natural disasters to worry about in the Pacific Northwest, like earthquakes, wildfires, and volcanic eruptions. But you may have heard less about lahars -- fast-moving mudflows ...

On Thursday, the storm was bringing heavy snow and strong winds to the Sierra Nevada and heavy rainfall over parts of coastal ...

BPA owns three-quarters of the Pacific Northwest’s high-voltage network ... an ice storm, big wildfires that take out a transmission line-- you need people in a control room who know what ...

This whole exercise would be ludicrous if it weren’t so serious,” said Randy Hardy, who headed BPA in the 1990s. “Cuts to this kind of thing plays with fire.” ...

Following the devastating wildfires throughout the Los Angeles ... TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond,” Trump wrote on social media.

Bafundo and other fired federal workers said the cuts, along with a federal hiring freeze, could make the Pacific Northwest more vulnerable to wildfires this summer and in the coming years.

These controlled burns can escape and become wildfires, degrade air quality, reduce visibility and pose serious health risks, particularly respiratory illnesses. In the Pacific Northwest ...