Beech Street Commons in Mill City brings housing to 2020 Labor Day wildfire survivors
Before the Labor Day wildfires burned more than 400,000 acres throughout northwest Oregon, Cecrle evacuated and left behind ...
Oregon lawmakers to introduce bill barring utility rate increases amid unresolved wildfire lawsuits
Three Oregon lawmakers say they plan to introduce a bill that would bar utilities from raising rates if they have unresolved ...
Oregon’s bigger, more severe fires worry those tasked with fighting them
As the Oregon fire season trends longer and fires burn larger, people who work with Oregon’s forest protective associations are grappling with questions about how they will retain personnel and secure ...
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Removing dead trees after a severe wildfire is often right thing to do
The 2020 Labor Day wildfires burned more than 1 million acres across Oregon, leaving vast expanses of dead timber in their ...
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Federal government sues PacifiCorp over ‘negligence’ in 2020 Labor Day wildfires
According to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Oregon on Thursday, the utility company’s negligence is what led ...
Oregon lawmakers approve $218M in emergency wildfire funding in special session
Oregon lawmakers are convening for a special session to discuss emergency wildfire funding after a record wildfire season in ...
Judge rules for insurgent firms in PacifiCorp wildfire legal clash
Lead counsel in the big PacifiCorp wildfire case in Portland are at war with an insurgent group of law firms they accuse of ...
PacifiCorp gets an 8.5% rate increase
The rates ordered by the Public Utility Commission aren't far from the 11.2% increase PacifiCorp put forth recently.
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Oregon sues manufactures it says built uninhabitable homes for Almeda Fire survivors
Oregon has sued the companies that allegedly ... wildfire survivors who have been without stable housing since the Labor Day fires ravaged their communities over four years ago.
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Oregon bill would ban utility rate increases amid unresolved wildfire lawsuits
After the federal government filed a lawsuit against PacifiCorp on Dec. 19 for negligence during the 2020 Labor Day Wildfires ...
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Removing dead trees after a severe wildfire is often right thing to do
The 2020 Labor Day wildfires burned more than 1 million acres across Oregon, leaving vast expanses of dead timber in their wake. In federally managed lands alone, approximately 280,000 acres ...