With the agency’s aviation hangar at the Olympia Regional Airport serving as a backdrop, state Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove held a press event to review of the 2025 summer fire season.

In Olympia this week, lawmakers pushed forward a plan to peel back a Washington tax break for large mortgage lenders and ...

October has arrived, but Washington’s wildfire season is far from over. Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove toured the area near the Labor Mountain fire on Wednesday, one of ...

If you think major wildfires in Washington are just for the eastern half of the state, think again. In a meeting room at the Tulalip Resort Casino, wildland firefighters, climate scientists, emergency ...

Legislation to eliminate a Washington state tax break for large mortgage lenders and use the revenue to partially backfill wildfire prevention programs is making progress in Olympia.

Proposed senate bills 5928 and 6079 would require public wildlife risk scores and bar nonrenewal for "Wildfire Prepared Homes ...

WASHINGTON - Wildfires continue to impact air quality in Washington as the Labor Mountain and Lower Sugarloaf fires burn over 40,000 acres each in Central Washington. According to Commissioner of ...

Wildfires are becoming an "all-of-Washington problem," not just an Eastern Washington one, the head of the state Department of Natural Resources said Monday. Commissioner of Public Lands Dave ...