TUMWATER, Wash. — Wildfires in Washington state have scorched more than a quarter-million acres this year, according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Public land officials and ...

Legislation to eliminate a Washington state tax break for large mortgage lenders and use the revenue to partially backfill wildfire prevention programs is making progress in Olympia.

For more than 15 years, Scott Fitzwilliams led what he affectionately calls the “crown jewel” of U.S. federal land — a swath of more than 2.2 million acres in Colorado that includes world-class ski ...