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The Washington State Department of Natural Resources says one thing is missing from the state’s climate policies. Recent laws don’t allow the state agency to sell carbon credits. Department officials are pushing legislation that would change that law.

As wildfires grow, so do the costs for fighting those fires. But many states are failing to adequately budget for wildfire costs, according to a new report from The Pew Charitable Trusts.

This year’s fire season has been the mildest year for Washington in a decade. But, the season isn’t over yet.

One family’s continuous wildfire preparation paid off this summer in North Central Washington.

At a Supreme Court hearing, conservation groups argued Washington forest managers should log fewer trees.

Fire officials hope to avoid another Labor Day weekend marked by extreme fires.

As wildfires have burned throughout the Northwest this summer, some forest stands have fared better than others. Managers say that’s thanks, in part, to thinning and prescribed burns, which have made the stands more resilient in the face of wildfire. We take a look at one stand in North Central Washington that burned in the Cedar Creek Fire

A Portland-based energy developer has signed property leases for a big solar farm in Klickitat County near the Columbia River. When completed, the solar…

It was a wild weekend for wildfire in the Northwest. A cold front brought lightning and high winds -- but no rain -- to the region east of the Cascades…

Washington’s Department of natural resources responded to small wildfires in two of the state’s northernmost counties this week. But land managers don’t…