EDITOR’S NOTE: Although the perpetrator of violence in this story was arrested, charged and incarcerated, his full name is being withheld at the request of the survivor. The purpose in sharing her story as part of National Domestic Violence...
Republican Greg Walden seeks an 11th term as the U.S. representative for Oregon’s 2nd Cong
Blue Mountain Community College is looking for input on its search for a new president.
The college is hosting a community forum Oct. 18 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Morrow Hall, room 100, on BMCC’s Pendleton campus to learn what the public is...
Umatilla County Commissioner George Murdock and challenger Rick Pullen agreed the county’s election process could use some improvement.
Otherwise, they took familiar roles Wednesday night during a local candidates forum in front of about...
Infanticide defendant Debra Lee Jones of Hood River is in the Umatilla County Jail, Pendleton.
Jones, 61, was at NORCOR, the Northern Oregon Regional Corrections Facility in The Dalles, along with her co-defendants: her wife, Rochelle R. Jones,...
Pendleton police will finally get body cameras.
The department received a grant from the United States Department of Justice to help pay for the equipment. Police Chief Stuart Roberts said he estimated the program will cost $70,000 and the grant...
A 62-year-old Condon woman died Tuesday morning in a single-vehicle crash in Gilliam County.
According to a press release from Oregon State Police, troopers and emergency responders arrived at the scene near milepost 13 on Lone Rock Road shortly...
One eastbound lane of Interstate 84 is closed at the Wildhorse exit (216) because of a semitruck crash near milepost 254 near La Grande.
A photo released by the Oregon Department of Transportation shows a semitruck on its side next to another...
HEPPNER — The downpour Tuesday flooded out a Heppner family.
The Morrow County Sheriff’s Office reported Heppner received 1.45 inches of rain in 24 hours while 2.4 inches drenched the outlying areas. The American Red Cross reported...
The Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries will meet in Pendleton Oct. 25 and 26 to discuss cemeteries and how to support them.
According to a press release, the commission will begin by holding its regular quarterly meeting from 2 p.m. to...
Kristen Wilson lost her son Jayson Withers in 2014 when a corrections officer at the state prison in Pendleton shot and killed him. She filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court against Charles Frates for making that shot. She lost the case at...
The Hermiston City Council voted unanimously to raise water and sewer rates Monday.
The rate restructure will take effect in March 2019 and is expected to raise about $2 million additional revenue per year that the city plans to put toward...
Mike Huckabee’s speech at a Pregnancy Care Services fundraiser at the Pendleton Convention Center Tuesday will be postponed two weeks as he and his family prepare for Hurricane Michael, according to a press release.
The former governor...
Oregon State Police conducting deer poaching stings during the weekend cited three Milton-Freewater men and seized two rifles.
State police reported troopers set up a decoy deer Saturday off the U.S. Forest Service Road 64 in the Walla Walla...
With rain last week and more precipitation forecasted, Pendleton and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation will lift their burn bans by the end of the week.
Pendleton interim Fire Chief Shawn Penninger said in a previous...
Pendleton police found their suspect from two recent hotel thefts in a Nebraska jail.
Pendleton Police Chief Stuart Roberts reported Monday morning the department received notice law enforcement arrested David Kunz, 55, on Saturday in Lincoln,...
PENDLETON — A Friday evening traffic stop near Athena led to the apprehension of a man wanted for first-degree sexual abuse.
An Oregon State Police trooper stopped a Ford Explorer at 5:58 p.m. for a traffic violation on the northbound...
