Six years ago this month, a 27-year-old Eugene man went missing. This weekend, his parents are holding what’s become an annual 5k race to bring awareness to mental health, addiction and missing persons.

On this edition, we talk with Lt. Tim Wallace the new head of the Lane County Sheriff's Search and Rescue program. Wallace talks about the role and how search and rescue in Lane County is a complex team effort.

The Spokane Area Fires, comprising three large wildfires, have burned more than 8,000 acres as of Monday and are still uncontained.

Western Oregon is in store for hot weather, smoke and elevated fire danger this week.

Thousands in the Warm Springs reservation have been without power or clean water for nearly a week. As the government reopens they’re faced with rebuilding — even while the fire still burns.

Several state lawmakers are calling on FEMA to reverse its denial of assistance for two wildfires in eastern and southern Oregon.

Despite crash data indicating the area is a hotspot for crashes, the city has no current plans to improve traffic safety along that stretch of road.

On this edition, we talk with Jim Cornelius, editor-in-chief of the Nugget Newspaper in Sisters. He's both the chronicler of The Akawa Butte Fire, and its threat to the community of Sisters, as well as a friend and neighbor to people who've had to flea with their lives from the firestorm. We also talked to KLCC's Macy Moore about a unique and quirky race in Corvallis.

The National Weather Service issued a fire weather watch for Saturday in large areas of north-central, northeast and southeast Oregon, including where two massive wildfire complexes are already burning more than 300,000 acres each.

Crews arrived from other states and countries to help with firefighting in Oregon this week.