DETROIT, Ore (KOIN) — Labor Day weekend five years ago brought massive wildfires and suffocating smoke to much of Oregon. Hundreds of thousands of acres burned that week, thousands of homes and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Oregon jury awarded $305 million to 16 survivors of the 2020 Santiam Canyon wildfires on Feb. 25, the largest award issued so ...

An Oregon jury has awarded $305 million to 16 wildfire survivors harmed by the Santiam Canyon wildfire that burned across hundreds of thousands of acres in 2020. This is the largest jury verdict ...

More than five years after wildfire devastated vast tracts of Oregon on Labor Day 2020, litigation against utilities whose lines were implicated in starting the conflagrations continues to grind its ...

FILE - Chairs stand at a post office in the aftermath of the Santiam Fire, in Gates, Ore., Sept 9, 2020. (Mark Ylen/Albany Democrat-Herald via AP, File) PORTLAND — An Oregon jury has ordered ...

Santiam Fire “If it was not for neighbors knocking on doors and calling each other,” Miller said, “the death toll would have been much greater.” For varying reasons due to differences in insurance ...

GATES, Oregon — It was September 2020, the height of the pandemic, when Oregon faced a historic crisis. Wildfires erupted across 11 counties, forcing evacuations. More than 40,000 people had to leave ...