Oregon cities including Ashland and Sisters have recently adopted new home hardening requirements in their development codes, ...

The Bend City Council is moving forward with plans to adopt new home-hardening requirements aimed at making new residential buildings more resilient to wildfires. During a work session last Wednesday, ...

A report from city of Bend staff showed it may be 60% to 80% more expensive over the next 10 years to use electric appliances in new homes as opposed to natural gas — but advocates say the cost of ...

The city of Bend is planning to develop a new fee on natural gas appliances installed in newly built homes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and advance its climate action goals. The proposal is ...