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Courtesy of Jim CloughEmergency leaders frequently stress that, when disaster strikes, people should be prepared to rely on themselves, but the 2020 Labor Day fires prompted state leaders to change how they handle emergency response. -
Daniel Hurst/OPBResearch shows delayed effects of Oregon’s Labor Day fires have killed trees that survived the initial blazes.
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One Oregon woman's journey from the loss of the Labor Day fires, through five years of dislocation, to a new beginning for her and her family. -
Research shows delayed effects of Oregon’s Labor Day fires have killed trees that survived the initial blazes. -
How the rapid spread of misinformation pushed Oregon lawmakers to kill the state’s wildfire risk mapThis is how misinformation gets accepted as fact. -
In its appeal filed Tuesday, PacifiCorp argued that thousands of people and businesses across the state should have never been grouped together into a class-action certification. The company also contends there is no proof showing it is at fault for causing fires across multiple regions, including in Santiam Canyon, Southern Oregon and the coast. -
The Oregon Department of Forestry report comes five years after the 2020 fire, as PacifiCorp pushes for legislation that would limit utilities' wildfire liabilities. -
From Fires to Flowers, a program run by the non-profit Pollinator Project Rogue Valley, creates vibrant gardens in the scorched footprint of the 2020 wildfire, helping create a landscape that heals both people and pollinators. -
Three Republican state representatives announced their proposal on the heels of an approved rate increase for PacifiCorp customers and a federal lawsuit against the electric power company. -
The federal government is suing the electric utility PacifiCorp over a 2020 wildfire in Douglas County. The Archie Creek Fire burned across more than 131,000 acres, about half of that federal land, according to the legal complaint filed Thursday. -
A federal judge denied a timber companies’ complaint that firefighters did not do everything possible to stop the spread of the Beachie Creek Fire. -
The Bonneville Power Administration has filed a motion to be dismissed from three federal lawsuits related to 2020′s Holiday Farm Fire, which devastated Blue River and several other communities east of Eugene, Oregon. -
Pacific Power, part of PacifiCorp, said Monday it has agreed to a $178 settlement with over 400 Oregon plaintiffs in the latest multimillion-dollar payout related to the deadly 2020 wildfires that ravaged the state. -
Dozens of Oregon wineries and vineyards have sued PacifiCorp over the deadly 2020 wildfires that ravaged the state, alleging that the utility’s decision to not turn off power during the Labor Day windstorm contributed to blazes whose smoke and soot damaged their grapes and reduced their harvest and sales.
