2020 wildfires

The Santiam Canyon is part of the Republican stronghold of Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, where Republican U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Democratic state Rep. Janelle Bynum are competing in a race with national implications.

Timber companies have filed a federal lawsuit against three utilities alleging gross negligence and recklessness in events leading up to 2020’s Holiday Farm Fire.

Both Oregon's Public Utility Commission and PacifiCorp officials said there’s an “urgent” need for regulators to address wildfire liability. But that would require action by the state Legislature.

A mobile home park destroyed by the Holiday Farm Fire in 2020 is being rebuilt, with new units expected this summer.

The McKenzie Corridor community of Blue River continues to rebuild, nearly four years after a wildfire leveled most of it.

This past weekend, community members celebrated the official groundbreaking of the first cooperatively owned mobile home park formed in the Rogue Valley. This fall, families will be returning after the 2020 Almeda Fire destroyed most of the park.

Many Oregonians whose homes were destroyed in 2020 wildfires will soon be protected from potentially massive property tax bills waiting for them after they rebuild.

Oregon’s housing agency will replace dozens of modular homes in Phoenix that are meant for wildfire survivors, marking a dramatic change from the agency’s previous plan to house fire victims.

The bill would exempt from state income taxes any money received as a result of a wildfire-related lawsuit.

Homeowners in the McKenzie Valley area who lost their septic systems to the Holiday Farm Fire can get money to fix or replace them.

For the second time this month, the utility provider PacifiCorp will pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to end a lawsuit over its alleged role in the devastating Oregon wildfires in 2020.

Researchers hope to train students to research wildfires, and help communities plan to be more resilient.