PacifiCorp is appealing a 2023 class action lawsuit verdict that found the utility company liable for damages caused by four wildfires in Oregon. The company argues that the class action lawsuit ...

Data centers consume 11% of all Oregon’s electricity, according to industry estimates, more than double the power used by all ...

Tony Andersen / Courtesy of Oregon Department of Transportation For the second time this month, the utility provider PacifiCorp will pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to end a lawsuit over ...

PacifiCorp decided against depowering lines as heavy winds battered western Oregon and some lines kept re-energizing even as they began to fault. LaBranch said PacifiCorp leaders needed to be more ...

A jury in Oregon has found electric utility PacifiCorp responsible for causing devastating fires during Labor Day 2020 in a civil lawsuit. The jury returned its decision Monday, saying the utility ...

PacifiCorp, the owner of Pacific Power in Oregon, contributed to all of the bills and the Utah law. Each of those bills confers upon utilities some version of state-sanctioned approval for ...

One-thousand Oregon wildfire survivors are suing PacifiCorp for $30 billion in the latest lawsuit filed as part of the massive class action lawsuit over the 2020 Labor Day wildfires. The complaint ...

PacifiCorp’s negligence led to four Labor Day 2020 wildfires that ravaged Oregon and the utility has been ordered to pay nearly $72 million in damages to a subset of the victims, according to a ...

The winery argues that it is a victim of the Oregon Labor Day fires in Santiam, Echo Mountain, Archie Creek Complex, 242, and South Obenchain in 2020 as a result of PacifiCorp’s electrical ...

"PacifiCorp has settled and will continue to settle all reasonable claims for actual damages under Oregon law. ... The growing threat of wildfires to communities and businesses is bigger than any ...

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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.