In a report from the Oregon Department of Forestry, investigators say powerlines did not help spread the Santiam Canyon Fire during the 2020 Labor Day wildfires.

Downed power lines started seven fires, but they were all quickly contained. The damage was caused by a dozen other fires ...

Electrical equipment was not the main cause of the devastating Santiam Canyon wildfire in 2020, according to a new report.

A newly released Oregon Department of Forestry report says that downed power lines were not the cause of the deadly Santiam ...

The long-awaited investigation was released Wednesday by the Oregon Department of Forestry. Critics of the report disputed ...

Embers drifting in from another big fire – not downed power lines – ignited out-of-control flames in the Santiam Canyon that killed five people, burned hundreds of thousands of acres and destroyed ...

Oregon lawmakers on Tuesday tweaked a bill intended to increase fire mitigation to ensure it does not also offer utilities ...

Oregon Department of Forestry investigators have determined that the 2020 Santiam Canyon fire was not caused by downed power ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A snowmobiler buried in an avalanche in central Utah is lucky to be alive. According to the Utah Avalanche ...

The Idaho Nursery and Landscape Association (INLA), in cooperation with the Idaho Department of Lands (IDL), Avista, Rocky Mountain Power, and Idaho Power, is pleased to announce a program intended ...

Lawyers feared the sentence as originally written would allow utilities to argue they had 'acted reasonably' even if they were responsible for starting catastrophic fires.