While rain thankfully relieves the risk of fires, it can bring its own hazards such as landslides. And experts say it was likely a landslide that was behind the major rupture of a natural gas pipeline ...

Update 12/21/2025: Evacuations were lifted on Sunday afternoon for the area of the South end of East Salmon River and East Welches Road in Welches. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A landslide in Welches has ...

SHERIDAN, Oregon — Federal Correctional Institution Sheridan has access to running water again after a landslide knocked out the main water line serving the prison for three days, federal officials ...

Researchers studying a massive landslide in Alaska have detected strange seasonal seismic pulses caused by water freezing and thawing in rock cracks. These faint signals could become an important ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Historic Columbia River Highway, just west of Vista House, reopened Saturday after being closed Thursday after a landslide. According to the Oregon Department of Transportation, ...

SEATTLE — Western Washington is in for a final push of an atmospheric river Thursday evening, but the landslide risk will continue for days if not longer after the region was hit by widespread ...

President Trump, again, threatens to pull federal funding from Portland and Oregon President Donald Trump is once again threatening to cut funding to sanctuary cities like Portland and states like ...

CONCRETE, Wash. — A landslide has been reported in the town of Concrete as heavy rain continues to soak western Washington. The slide is in the area of the 7200 block of Lake Shannon Road in ...

LINCOLN COUNTY Ore. (KPTV) - People living in 10 homes around the landslide that closed Highway 229 in Lincoln County have been placed on evacuation notice, the sheriff’s office said in an update on ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A community is in recovery mode after a massive landslide displaced residents and impacted several homes on Friday morning. The landslide happened on OR 229, near milepost 14, ...

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