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A new team on Monday took over the Cowlitz Complex Fire in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, which has just three active fires remaining after an Aug. 25 lightning storm ignited an estimated 43. …

When the California Interagency Incident Management Team 13 arrived in Randle early this month, taking over for another team, there were 43 active fires scattered across the Gifford Pinchot National …

Wildfire smoke continues to persist in the Bay Area, prompting the region's air quality regulators to extend the current Spare the Air alert into Saturday as local residents wonder when the skies will finally clear.

Weather monitors expect the pollution to hover over the region at least into Thursday.

The alerts are the seventh and eighth ones this year, according to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

Officials with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District have extended a Spare the Air alert through Friday due to ongoing air quality issues caused by smoke from wildfires burning further north in California and southern Oregon.

No threat is currently posed to the public by the Cowlitz Complex Fires, a collective name for 30 blazes throughout the Gifford Pinchot National Forest that were sparked by a lightning storm on Aug. …

Firefighters assigned to the Tyee Ridge Complex fire have been conducting successful mop-up operations this week resulting in an overall containment of 55% while their counterparts on the Chilcoot and

With the official start of archery elk hunting season on Sept. 9, firefighters working on several fires throughout the Gifford Pinchot National Forest are reminding hunters to be vigilant of their …

A tiny school district in the mountains east of Oroville took a step toward recovery in a Friday ceremony