The Oregon Department of Forestry still owes hundreds of vendors more than $98 million for costs incurred during this year's ...
The Oregon Senate passed a bill this afternoon during a special legislative session to allocate funding for theOregon ...
The company has worked on wildfires for decades, and Miller says the state routinely pays its bills within 45 days. But this ...
The emergency spending will free up the Oregon Department of Forestry and Office of State Fire Marshal — the two state ...
Gov. Tina Kotek on Friday signed Senate Bill 5801, passed in Thursday’s legislative special session, that allocates $218 million to the Department of Forestry and the Oregon State Fire Marshal to pay ...
The Oregon legislature pushed a bill covering millions of dollars of unpaid bills for the 2024 wildfire season, with governor ...
Gov. Kotek called the special session to free up money to pay hundreds of contractors involved in the wildfire season that ...
Oregon’s drier east side was hit the hardest. Many landowners there pay the Oregon Department of Forestry for fire protection through a per-acre annual fee based on what kind of land they have ...
The state spent more than $350 million responding to more than 2,000 wildfires in 2024, far exceeding projected costs and ...
Oregon lawmakers are meeting in a special session to discuss emergency funding to pay for the record wildfire season of 2024, ...
The emergency spending will free up the Oregon Department of Forestry and Office of State Fire Marshal — the two state agencies that predominantly tackle wildfires — to pay contractors who ...
The bill specifically directs $191.5 million from the general fund to the Oregon Department of Forestry and $26.5 million to the Oregon Department of the State Fire Marshal. Some Oregon ...