They will be eligible for a one-time payment as well as college tuition for their children. The effort is part of a ...

Plaintiffs have been winning damages of $5.5 million apiece on average. Hundreds more could have their cases heard next year.

The request comes as PacifiCorp is facing potentially billions in wildfire-related damages, credit rating downgrades and growing pressure on its ability to finance operations and wildfire-related ...

PacifiCorp wildfire payouts near $1.7 billion Utility denies negligence in not shutting off power lines PacifiCorp has warned of potential liquidity strain Nov 19 (Reuters) - PacifiCorp, owned by ...

Oregon’s statewide 2025 fire season officially wrapped Friday with significantly fewer acres burned at a lower cost to the state than in previous years. But fires this year got much closer to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Utility company PacifiCorp has reached another settlement following the Labor Day fires of 2020 – agreeing to pay $125 million to nearly 100 Oregon wineries and vineyards ...

With Congress set to wrap up its session in the coming days, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon says bipartisan legislation moving ...

New research shows climate change is now a major driver of wildfire smoke, affecting air quality and health across the western United States.

On a summer morning earlier this year, a metallic shriek echoed through a forested area of Benton County, and small branches tumbled to the forest floor. Contract crews were “making salad,” using ...

Ecologists in a vast region of wetlands and forest in remote Oregon have spent the past decade thinning young trees and using planned fires to try to restore the thick stands of ponderosa to a less ...