LA GRANDE — The Eastern Oregon University Board of Trustees is set to make a final decision on a potential tuition increase.
JOHN DAY — Thirty-four-year-old Afghanistan veteran Jake Sansing has walked across America four times. Now taking his fifth trip across the country, Sansing says this will be his last.
The permanent First Avenue Plaza gathering area downtown will be called Walawà la Plaza, honoring the area’s native peoples. Construction is estimated to begin in October.
A Seattle man died in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 84 near Durkee on Sunday afternoon, May 15.
CORVALLIS — The Elgin High School band competed for the first time in the statewide Oregon School Activities Association band and orchestra championships, finishing in fifth place among the se…
LA GRANDE — Four past fallen Union County law enforcement officers were honored last week in La Grande.
WALLOWA COUNTY — More wolf attacks on livestock have been reported by producers and confirmed by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife over the past week, according to the ODFW’s livestoc…
Wolves from the Cornucopia pack injured two calves north of Richland recently, the third attack on cattle in that area in the past few weeks, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wil…
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has declared a drought emergency in Baker County, granting a request that Baker County commissioners made on April 28.
LA GRANDE — A 41-year-old La Grande man suffered serious injuries in a fall from a rock outcropping in southeast Union County this weekend.
Deschutes County Commissioner Tony DeBone will be the first chairman of a steering team that will work to develop a regional emergency training center.
LA GRANDE — Connie Guentert knows she has big shoes to fill as the new executive director of Community Connection of Northeast Oregon.
A Baker City man who was seriously hurt in a motorcycle crash May 4 is improving in a Boise hospital.
A wolf from the Desolation pack in Grant County photographed by a remote camera on June 7, 2021.
April showers couldn’t completely make up for a meager winter snowpack in the mountains of Northeastern Oregon.
Wolves from the Cornucopia pack killed a calf north of Richland last week and injured two other calves in the same area about two weeks ago, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wild…
Helicopters hovering over the Malheur National Forest are a telltale sign that fire season has arrived in Grant County.
Baker County Sheriff Travis Ash sees a troubling trend with wolves attacking cattle east of Baker County.
CANYON CITY — Grant County officials are mulling the pros and cons of having a publicly owned fiber internet infrastructure.
LA GRANDE — Eastern Oregon University has announced its interim provost following an internal search that included interviews, forums and feedback.
The Rachel Pregnancy Center’s annual baby bottle fundraising drive started on Mother’s Day and will continue through Father’s Day, June 19.
LA GRANDE — A major sewer line project that would connect running water and sewage to the Union County Fairgrounds is currently up for debate.
WALLOWA COUNTY — Wolf kills of livestock are becoming more frustrating to Wallowa County ranchers and livestock officials when they see how those depredations are handled by the Oregon Departm…
A Baker City woman and her daughter who filed a federal lawsuit against the Baker School District two years ago, claiming that district officials retaliated against the daughter after she comp…
JOSEPH — Charla Lower is seeking to notify residents of the danger bailing twine can have on osprey.
A Baker City man sustained serious injuries when the motorcycle he was riding went off Highway 86 along the Powder River Wednesday afternoon, May 4, and plunged down a 25-foot embankment.
Mannequins, fortunately, don’t mind getting soaked.
Free Comic Book Day returns to the Baker County Public Library on Saturday, May 7.
Pioneer Park's accessibility and "walkability" just got a boost from city leaders with a $300,000 grant to build additional sidewalks, ramps and crosswalk enhancements.
LA GRANDE — The first stage of a highly debated forest management project has reached completion at the Mount Emily Recreation Area.
JOHN DAY — John Day’s search for a successor to outgoing City Manager Nick Green will have to start anew after the city rejected two candidates who had applied to be his replacement.
JOHN DAY — After losing $122,000, the city-owned greenhouse in John Day could soon be under new management.
A Circuit Court hearing on a motion to dismiss criminal charges against a former Grant County sheriff’s deputy accused of assault, attempted rape and child neglect got underway on April 20, wi…
JOSEPH — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has issued a kill permit for up to two wolves from the Chesnimnus pack in Wallowa County.
UNION — The Veterans of Foreign War High Valley Post 4060 is looking to get a new service group up and running for local first responders and veterans.
WALLOWA LAKE — After being mothballed since 2019 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the dragon boats that regularly appear on Wallowa Lake are getting ready to breathe fire again.
Isolation, stress, financial hardship and mental health struggles heightened the risk
Ever since Gwen Trice was a young girl growing up in La Grande, she wanted to move to nearby Wallowa County. Whenever she visited, often as a teenager, she felt something powerful was drawing …
LA GRANDE — Connie Guentert knows she has big shoes to fill as the new executive director of Community Connection of Northeast Oregon.
Trevor Lewis was almost ready to start spreading flames when the rain arrived.
The searchers will clamber over logs and rock outcroppings and wend their way between the pines, looking for someone who isn’t actually lost.
Two areas off the Oregon Coast are being targeted to host offshore wind farms as the Biden administration seeks to ramp up renewable energy production. The sites are about 12 nautical miles of…
Phyllis Fox wasn’t about to tell the fast-talking man on the telephone any of the details on her Medicare enrollment card.
WALLOWA — The Joseph Branch Trail Consortium, the nonprofit group that hopes to establish a trail-with-rails alongside the existing railroad tracks that run between Elgin and Joseph, will hold…
The Baker School District’s Oregon International School program has formalized its sister-school relationship with the Hautlieu School of St. Savior on the Isle of Jersey, in the English Channel.
A search and rescue training took place in 2019 near Phillips Reservoir.
A Baker City woman has filed a lawsuit against Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Baker City and a former surgeon seeking up to $10 million in damages for injuries she suffered due to an infection…
The Baker County Board of Commissioners took a significant step Wednesday, April 27, toward finding a new ambulance provider for Baker City and more than half of the county should city officia…
JOHN DAY — The Grant County Road Department, Blue Mountain Hospital District and Juniper Ridge Acute Care Center collected outdated medical supplies and first aid kits to send to Ukraine last week.
The question of whether Baker City should pursue a railroad quiet apparently won’t go to city voters after all.
LA GRANDE — A La Grande man who faces nearly 30 counts of sex crimes was arraigned Monday, April 25, in Union County Circuit Court.
WALLOWA — Sara Hayes was interviewed by Wallowa students during the process of being ultimately named Wallowa junior high and high school principal.
WALLOWA — The Wallowa School District is earning close to straight As.
