Ryan Haas

Federal regulators have given the Oregon State Hospital just 23 days to change how it transports patients, after a daring August escape left one caregiver with minor injuries and a state van stolen.

Oregon’s three largest electricity providers say they are adapting quickly to growing wildfire risks. State regulators have endorsed their plans as Oregon braces for a potentially hot, dry summer.

As the climate warms, the risks of major wildfires are growing, and PacifiCorp is not the only utility to face blame for their role in sparking them.

In a filing Thursday with the Oregon Public Utility Commission, PacifiCorp asked its regulators to allow it to defer any costs related to wildfire liability through June 2024. That would allow the company the option to add those costs to customer rates in the future.

Two days after jurors in Multnomah County found that the utility PacifiCorp was to blame for wildfires in 2020, they ordered the company to pay punitive damages.

Oregon’s second-largest electrical utility, PacifiCorp, played a significant role in the Labor Day wildfires that ravaged parts of the state in 2020, according to a Multnomah County jury.

The trial, which began at the end of April, wrapped up closing statements from both sides Wednesday in Multnomah County Circuit Court. Now both sides await a verdict.

The defense follows several weeks of plaintiffs' attorneys alleging that PacifiCorp acted negligently by keeping its lines energized during the Labor Day fires.

A jury heard opening statements Tuesday in a $1.6 billion trial against PacifiCorp over its alleged role in the 2020 Labor Day wildfires.

A $1.6 billion class-action lawsuit that accuses the utility PacifiCorp of failing to shut off its power lines during extreme fire danger in September 2020 heads to trial Monday. It is likely the first time a utility has taken such a class-action case to a jury trial.

The complicated financial landscape around psilocybin means none of the early businesses are guaranteed to survive the next few years as Oregon tries to navigate the uncharted landscape of allowing therapeutic use of a drug that is still illegal federally.

Retreat Guru said it expects as many as 90% of Synthesis Digital's 220 former students to continue their coursework and join the ranks of Oregon’s first psilocybin facilitators. The Canadian company took over Synthesis' Oregon operations earlier this month due to a financial collapse. The fate of Synthesis' Buckhorn Springs Resort training facility near Ashland is unclear.