When you discover a colony of ants on your property, it's unlikely that you'll be inclined to stop and investigate what species you've got crawling around your yard. Homeowners simply go searching for ...

A lightning-sparked fire burning in old-growth Douglas fir trees east of Sweet Home has grown to more than 500 acres, by far the largest in East Linn County since fast-moving deadly wildfires swept ...

Incident managers and forest officials say an about-1,200-acre fire is burning in an eastern Linn County region long untouched by fire, where flames could blow up under increasingly hot and windy ...