Washington was once home to hundreds of fire lookouts — great towers that would stand above the trees, offering 360-degree views of the surrounding wilderness. The towers were used by spotters, who ...

“Nobody thought Harkness would go,” Ash Phillips told me plainly. The Mount Harkness Fire Lookout tower was, after all, built atop a sparsely vegetated peak of an ancient cinder cone volcano—not ...

While the stretch of record-breaking temperatures appears to be over for the new few days, temperatures will remain in the 80s and 90s over the weekend as wildfires continue to burn across Oregon.