Outside town, snow-capped Mt. McLoughlin towers above a vast burn scar, where blackened trees from the South Obenchain Fire stand crookedly across miles of the Cascade Range’s foothills.

It cited ignitions from power lines owned by PacifiCorp as cause of the fire. Most others — Riverside, Almeda, Echo Mountain, Santiam, Holiday Farm, 242 and South Obenchain fires — remain ...

PacifiCorp stands accused in this lawsuit of starting four of those fires, including the Santiam Canyon fires east of Salem, the Echo Mountain Complex near Lincoln City, the South Obenchain Fire ...

Like you said, we have about 420-425 people and we had gone through the [South] Obenchain fire in 2020. Everybody was searching for ways that we could come up with [for how to] become more ...

The trials are determining the amount of economic damages to be paid out to individuals after the wildfires that killed five ...

In June of 2023 — after a six-week trial — a jury held PacifiCorp liable for causing the Santiam, 242, Echo Mountain Complex and South Obenchain fires. The decision meant that nearly 2,500 ...

Fred Cuozzo barely made it out of the South Obenchain Fire that burned through his home, barn, pumphouse and garage in Eagle Point, north of Medford, on Sept. 8, 2020. Three years later, ...

The case centered around four wildfires: the Echo Mountain Complex fire, the South Obenchain fire, the 242 fire, and fires in the Santiam Canyon. Pacific Power released a statement that said it ...

A bipartisan bill moving through the Oregon Senate would prohibit private utilities from recovering wildfire costs from customers if companies are delaying lawsuits Fred Cuozzo barely made it out ...