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July 25, 2024 at 12:45 AM. 1 / 2. Oregon fire is the largest burning in the US. Officials warn an impending storm could exacerbate it. BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Powerful winds and hundreds of ...
2022 Bend, Oregon shooting. / 44.05778°N 121.26500°W / 44.05778; -121.26500. Mass shooting, murder–suicide, double-homicide, workplace violence. On August 28, 2022, a gunman opened fire at a Safeway grocery store in Bend, Oregon, killing two men, one of whom was an employee, and wounding two other people before committing suicide.
While the Little Devil fire covered 485 acres (1.96 km 2), the Whitewater fire reached more than 10,000 acres (40 km 2) in area, [25] provoking the use of amphibious aircraft [26] and causing trail closures. [27] As a result of the Whitewater fire, officials closed the Mount Jefferson Wilderness during the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017. [28]
Fort Clatsop was the encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Oregon Country near the mouth of the Columbia River during the winter of 1805–1806. Located along the Lewis and Clark River at the north end of the Clatsop Plains approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Astoria, the fort was the last encampment of the Corps of Discovery, before embarking on their return trip east to ...
The capital of Canada's Northwest Territories was virtually deserted after nearly all the residents of the city of just over 20,000 fled as a huge wildfire burned nearby. To the south, in British ...
A fire destroyed the Hudson's Bay Company fort in 1866, but the Army facility continued in operation in various forms until the present. Fort Vancouver was separated from the Army's barracks and became a national monument in 1948. Congress expanded the protected area in 1966 and re-designated the site as a National Historic Site.
August 4, 2024 at 4:35 PM. As we enter a new era in photography, old habits persist. In a predominantly digital world, a new generation of photographers is embracing film photography, with Scott's ...
Colorado with one of his monumental painting series depicting polar and Arctic themes, 2017. K.A. Colorado (Kenneth Auther Colorado, born 5 April 1946) is an American-Canadian visual artist, painter, and sculptor known for his representational work depicting climate change and the environment.