PacifiCorp has waged a campaign, in the courts and now in the halls of the state Capitol, to reduce its financial obligation.

The damages are based on a June 2023 jury finding that the Berkshire Hathaway utility was grossly negligent and reckless in ...

Sen. Jeff Golden (D-Ashland) plans to reintroduce a bill to help wildfire-affected communities. Golden’s past attempts failed ...

Since 2020, blazes even burned up homes on the Oregon coast, just inland from the Pacific Ocean in areas once thought almost immune to fire because of a wetter, cooler climate. “After 2020 ...

A fourth jury in Portland, Oregon has awarded approximately $50 million in compensation to 7 individual wildfire survivors, ...

Oregonians who live in the state’s highest-risk wildfire zones will be subject to stricter building codes and requirements under a new hazard map released Tuesday by state fire officials.

April Ehrlich / JPR News A pair of bills has been introduced in the Oregon Legislature that would give more money to four school districts impacted by the 2020 wildfires. Those districts were ...

The yearslong process to produce a map that designates every part of Oregon as low, moderate or high risk of wildfires came about following the historic 2020 Labor Day wildfires that killed nine ...

The yearslong process to produce a map that designates every part of Oregon as low, moderate or high risk of wildfires came about following the historic 2020 Labor Day wildfires that killed nine and ...