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Worries linger over traditional firefighting approach in rural Oregon
Oregon’s remaining few forest protective associations are grappling with questions about how they will retain personnel and ...
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Wildfire Bills Being Paid
(Salem, OR) -- The Oregon Department of Forestry is working to pay past-due bills for the summer's wildfire season. The record setting wildfire season depleted funds for fighting the fires. The ...
Oregon lawmakers approve $218M in emergency wildfire funding in special session
Oregon lawmakers were convening Thursday for a special session to discuss emergency funding to pay out millions in unpaid ...
Jefferson Public Radio14d
Oregon isn’t paying its wildfire bills on time. Now legislators must act
The company has worked on wildfires for decades, and Miller says the state routinely pays its bills within 45 days. But this ...
Feds sue PacifiCorp over 2020 Oregon wildfire
The suit is yet another wildfire liability challenge for Oregon's second-largest electricity provider, which is part of ...
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Oregon sues companies over defective homes for southern Oregon wildfire victims
The state of Oregon is suing the companies brought on to build 140 homes for 2020 wildfire survivors in southern Oregon. In the nearly $11.8 million lawsuit, Oregon Housing and Community ...
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Federal government sues PacifiCorp over 2020 Oregon wildfire, as the costs of fires to the company climb
The federal government is suing the electric utility PacifiCorp over a 2020 wildfire in Douglas County. The Archie Creek Fire ...
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 ...
Argus Observer3d
Local lawmakers give green light to wildfire relief
Vale, and Mark Owens, R-Crane, voted in favor of SB 5801 during the December special session of the 82nd Oregon Legislative ...
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$1 million awarded to EWEB for wildfire resiliency projects
Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden secured major investments to strengthen forest health and wildfire resilicency ...