PacifiCorp reached a $150 million settlement with 1,434 victims of the 2020 Labor Day Fires, the company announced on Nov. 19. It was the latest settlement issued by Oregon’s second-largest utility ...

Regulated utility PacifiCorp has launched a joint study with nuclear technology firm TerraPower to evaluate the feasibility of deploying up to five additional Natrium pool-type sodium fast reactors ...

Kathleen Becherer, 77, retired in 2014 to the Santiam River Canyon, where she hoped for a life filled with “bees, goats and grandkids.” That dream was incinerated in September 2020. The Santiam Fire, ...

This story was produced by the Oregon Journalism Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the state. They are words seldom seen in the same paragraph or uttered in the same sentence: Warren Buffett and ...

PacifiCorp has filed a long-awaited appeal to a class action ruling that has so far awarded millions of dollars to people harmed by wildfires in 2020. In 2023, a jury found PacifiCorp was reckless and ...

PacifiCorp is asking state regulators to approve a plan to sell its share of the Boardman-to-Hemingway transmission line to a subsidiary of its parent company, which would then lease the line’s ...

A trial connected to a $1.6 billion class action lawsuit against utility PacifiCorp over the catastrophic Labor Day 2020 wildfires in Oregon started Tuesday in Portland. The fires in 2020 killed nine ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry report comes five years after the 2020 fire, as PacifiCorp pushes for legislation that would limit utilities' wildfire liabilities. FILE - Damage from the Santiam ...

Buffett-owned utility reaches $150 million Oregon wildfire settlement PacifiCorp, owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway , said on Wednesday it reached a $150 million settlement with 1,434 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A trial connected to a $1.6-billion class action lawsuit against utility PacifiCorp over the catastrophic Labor Day 2020 wildfires in Oregon began Tuesday in Portland. The fires in ...