HERMISTON — Having recently opened a new gym, personal trainer Toni Piek has been seeing people who are excited to start training again.
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If Julie and Bobby Lara want to fit their new roadside billboard onto their sales floor, they will have to roll it up. Even then, it would be a tight fit for their 48-by-12-foot billboard to f…
HERMISTON — Despite living more than 200 miles away from her company’s office in Hermiston, Emily Cecil has the shortest imaginable commute.
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THE DALLES — The Dalles City Council voted unanimously Monday, Oct. 25, to grant new property tax breaks for two more Google data centers, worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to the …
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PENDLETON — Suzie’s Organic Hard Seltzer, a subsidiary of the Pendleton-based Barhyte Specialty Foods, is expanding into Trader Joe’s.
HERMISTON — A longtime banking executive has joined Umatilla Electric Cooperative as vice president of finance and rates, a newly created position at the Hermiston-based business.
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BAKER CITY — Tyler Brown’s family owns one restaurant in Baker City that hasn’t served a meal since before the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Baker County.
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PENDLETON — The smells of grilling meats and delicious treats are filling the streets of downtown Pendleton now that dozens of food vendors and trucks have arrived for the Pendleton Round-Up.
HERMISTON — OMG! Burgers & Brew is opening in downtown Hermiston on Oct. 1. It is the second location for the popular restaurant, which has operated in Pendleton for more than three years.
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HERMISTON — The Eastern Oregon Economic Summit has been postponed until June 2022 due to the continued surge of the delta variant of COVID-19 and to facilitate full participation by attendees,…
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Although new winery owners Toby Turlay and Chris Dukelow are fully vaccinated, the risk that a breakthrough case could impact their sense of taste and smell — a common side effect of COVID-19 …
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GRANTS PASS — Dutch Bros Coffee hopes to raise up to $484 million in its initial public offering, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday, Sept. 7, which would make it the largest IPO in Oreg…
UMATILLA COUNTY — Several Eastern Oregon towns are sites for WorkSource Oregon's statewide scavenger hunt for Back to Work Day.
UMATILLA — Techla Fish and Travis Mix have had some ups and downs during the pandemic. On a sad note, they have lost family. They also have gotten sick with COVID-19, twice. In short, this has…
The Hermiston Chamber of Commerce expects to move into its newly remodeled building in the coming weeks, about the same time it will say goodbye to its CEO.
Angela Pursel and Alexis McCarthy, owners of a new Hermiston bookstore, are surprised by their success.
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SALEM — Jobs in restaurants and taverns frequently sit at the bottom end of the pay scale, with waiters, line cooks and bartenders sometimes treated as easily replaceable — and paid accordingly.
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Walla Walla Valley businesses on both sides of the Washington-Oregon border have reported that residents here are also asking for the deworming drug for off-label purposes.
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SALEM — Political redistricting hearings around the state next month have been cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns, legislative leaders announced Monday, Aug. 23.
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SALEM — Oregon added 20,000 jobs in July and the state’s jobless rate dropped from 5.6% to 5.2%, the steepest monthly decline in nearly a year.
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WASHINGTON — Most Americans have high trust in doctors, nurses and pharmacists, a new poll finds.
HERMISTON — The Umatilla Electric Cooperative recently announced winners of its UEC Youth Entrepreneur Contest.
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SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown has agreed to award state workers who were required to report to work in person during the pandemic one-time “COVID hazard payments” of up to $1,550 under new tentative…
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SALEM — The board of Oregon’s Public Employees Retirement System voted unanimously Friday, July 23, to reduce its long-term assumption about earnings on the pension system’s investment portfol…
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LOS ANGELES — California and New York City announced Monday, July 26, that they would require all government employees to get the coronavirus vaccine or face weekly COVID-19 testing, and the D…
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Lawyers working to get Easterday farming and ranching operations through bankruptcy reorganization have racked up nearly $4.7 million in fees and expenses in four months.
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LA GRANDE — The Oregon Employment Department reported the number of residents in Eastern Oregon receiving unemployment benefits is lower now than it was before the pandemic started.
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SALEM — Oregon workforce officials said Tuesday, July 13, the state’s unemployment rate dropped in June to 5.6%, down from a 5.8% tally for May that was revised downward.
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SALEM — Oregon small-business owners are more optimistic about the future than they have been at any point since the pandemic began.
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SALEM — Oregon missed its midyear target for improving the employment department’s woeful phone system, but the state says it remains committed to resolving the issues by the end of the year.
The crew of the Pendleton branch of Tum-A-Lum Lumber poses June 21, 2021, for the groundbreaking of the new Tum-A-Lum location at 2470 S.E. Court Ave. Shane Reinhart, Pendleton branch manager,…
PENDLETON — A Pendleton dentist was recently honored by the Academy of General Dentistry with a Mastership Award, which recognizes commitment to excellence in dental education.
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BOARDMAN — Oregon officials have given Cody Easterday 15 days to withdraw his application to operate a controversial mega-dairy in Boardman, just south of the Tri-Cities.
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Oregon’s lowest-paid workers will be earning more beginning Thursday, July 1 — as much as $14 an hour for some.
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LA GRANDE — In an average year, the Thunder RV parking lot boasts 30 to 45 RVs, ranging from truck campers to 5th wheels to travel trailers.
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For the first time in many years, Milton-Freewater is seeing an influx of businesses applying for land-approval in the town. The city of Milton-Freewater reported a total of 212 businesses in …
HEPPNER — Gary Propheter recently retired from the Bank of Eastern Oregon, after a nearly 50-year career in banking.
PORTLAND — Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Yakama tribal fishers are making their way to the Columbia River after the tribes announced that the first commercial gillnet fishery of 2021 o…
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Dutch Bros, the drive-thru chain of coffee stands based in Grants Pass, says it has filed for an initial public offering after years of rapid growth. It could be Oregon’s first major IPO since 2004.
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SALEM — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced plans on Friday, June 4, to lift mask mandates and physical distancing requirements in most settings once 70% of adults in Oregon have received their f…
HEPPNER — The Bank of Eastern Oregon recently promoted six employees into vice president roles.
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PENDLETON — According to Steve Chrisman, Pendleton’s airport manager and economic development director, the world is in the midst of nothing short of a “fourth industrial revolution” thanks to…
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PENDLETON — The East Oregonian will welcome back a familiar face to its newsroom.
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HEPPNER — The Heppner Chamber of Commerce has a new executive director, according to a press release.
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PENDLETON — A Tri-Cities hotelier is readying development on a new Holiday Inn in Pendleton, with an exact location to be determined.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund is now taking applications.
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HERMISTON — The developer for a proposed natural gas plant outside Hermiston is reviewing an offer from a potential buyer who expressed interest in continuing the project.
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PENDLETON — One of Pendleton’s most prominent buildings is on the market, and all anyone needs to buy is as little as $2 million.
PORTLAND — Registration for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF) will begin Friday, April 30 at 6 a.m. and thenSmall Business Administration will begin accepting applications via the Resta…
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Mike Pierce hopes to carry on the legacy of his friend, mentor and owner David Young, who died two years ago, repairing agricultural and construction equipment in the Walla Walla Valley.
HEPPNER — BEO Bancorp and its subsidiary, Bank of Eastern Oregon, announced first quarter 2021 consolidated net income of $1,337,000, or $1.11 per share, compared to $1,110,000, or $0.94 per s…
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The plan was to keep Michelle Swartzentruber closer to home by getting the young woman invested in a new baking operation. The result was too sweet to resist.
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A new warehouse starting construction in Hermiston is expected to hire 75 to 100 people once it is completed later this year.
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MESA, Wash. — A Washington man pleaded guilty on Wednesday, March 31, to defrauding businesses out of more than $244 million by charging them under various agreements for the purported costs o…
