PacifiCorp must resolve its dispute with its excess insurers over litigation and remediation costs related to the Portland Harbor Superfund site in arbitration, a federal district court ruled.

Oregon’s second-largest electrical utility, PacifiCorp, played a significant role in the Labor Day wildfires that ravaged parts of the state in 2020, according to a Multnomah County jury.

PacifiCorp has asked the Oregon Public Utility Commission to limit future lawsuit awards against the company to “actual” damages for property and loss of life.

Ten survivors of the 2020 wildfires received a total of $44.1 million in the latest damages trial in the ongoing class action lawsuit against PacifiCorp.

PacifiCorp reached a $178 million settlement with 403 victims of the 2020 Labor Day fires, the company announced Monday, while hitting an impasse with thousands of others.

As the 2025 legislative session lurches toward its conclusion, a bipartisan bill aimed at speeding wildfire damage payouts remains stalled in committee.

PacifiCorp did have a plan for shutting off power for public safety during high winds, low humidity and dry vegetation in 2020, but company officials told The Salem Journal-Statesman they did not ...

PacifiCorp is part of billionaire Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate. The regulated monopoly utility operates in six western states, including Wyoming, ...

An Oregon state jury on Tuesday ordered PacifiCorp, an Oregon electric utility owned by billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, to pay at least $62 million to nine homeowners whose ...

Meanwhile, in Oregon, PacifiCorp may have to pay upward of $1 billion in damages to victims of the 2020 fires that its infrastructure was found to have started.

PacifiCorp announced in 2023 that it would shutter the Huntington and Hunter coal plants in Utah by 2032. But an update to that integrated resource plan (IRP) ...

PacifiCorp was among the first Portland companies to ask workers to come back to the office, telling them in November 2020 that those who didn’t return would face a 10% pay cut.