Business
Proposal to impose penalties on private utilities delaying wildfire lawsuits quietly moves forward
A bipartisan bill moving through the Oregon Senate would prohibit private utilities from recovering wildfire costs from customers ...
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Local
Aerial seeding, other rehab work continues on areas burned by 2024 wildfires
BAKER COUNTY — The effort to rehabilitate ground burned in last summer’s record-breaking wildfires and get grass and ...
Local
Firefighters from NE Oregon helping with devastating LA blazes
Danielle Weaver figured she’d be shoveling snow in the middle of January rather than spraying water on a ...
Local
Major disaster declaration to benefit Eastern Oregon counties
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced Thursday, Jan. 2, that President Joe Biden ...
Wildfires
Oregon Legislature overwhelmingly approves wildfire funding
The Oregon Legislature overwhelmingly approved $218 million in additional funding on Dec. 12 to cover the 2024 fire ...
State
Kotek calls special legislative session to pay wildfire bills
SALEM — The 2024 fire season cost Oregon emergency response agencies nearly $350 million, and state leaders are ...
Local
Rehab for public land burned in Durkee, Cow Valley fires estimated at $27 million
BAKER CITY — Rehabilitating public land burned in two of the region’s biggest wildfires this summer could cost ...
Local
Difficult fire season strains relationship between forestry department, Eastern Oregon landowners
PENDLETON — At a board retreat Thursday, Oct. 17, in Pendleton, officials from the Oregon Department of Forestry ...
Wildfires
Durkee Fire: ‘For a while, it looked like the whole world might burn’
DURKEE, Ore. — Bert Siddoway heard the fire before he saw it, no seconds at all between the ...
Local
Prescribed fire spreads into Walla Walla’s watershed
WALLA WALLA — A prescribed fire intended to help protect the source of Walla Walla’s drinking water from ...