Dana George has a BA in Management and Organization Development from Spring Arbor University. For more than 25 years, she has written and reported on business and finance, and she's still passionate ...

Three fires converged in 2020, destroying over 1,500 structures in the Santiam Canyon, which included massive destruction to the city of Detroit, shown here. A partnership between the Oregon State ...

A wildfire burns close to a home near the Rogue River. Insurance markets in parts of Oregon have begun to look more like those in California, where some of the largest insurance companies in the ...

The Pinehurst Inn sits above Jenny Creek on a sharp bend of Highway 66 in southeast Jackson County. With its rustic log posts, generous wraparound porch, and tidy planter beds, the two-story home is a ...

Oregon homeowners benefit from some of the lowest home insurance costs in the nation, even as averages climb in climate-exposed states. While Gulf Coast and wildfire-heavy markets face severe ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon homeowners who live in certain high-risk wildfire areas defined by the state must now meet new building codes and reduce vegetation around their homes under new “wildfire ...

Nancy Matela co-owns a vacation home in a wildfire zone northwest of Bend that has a new, annual property insurance premium of $9,000. It’s more than nine times what the company Safeco charged her a ...

Oregon’s State Fire Marshal is collaborating with a nonprofit backed by the insurance industry to help Oregonians protect their homes from burning and keep their premiums from rising. State Fire ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon homeowners who live in certain high-risk wildfire areas defined by the state must now meet new building codes and reduce vegetation around their homes under new “wildfire ...