HARRISON, Ark. — I drove past the water tower with the words “Trout Capital of the World” boldly stacked along the full height of the blue metal. The White River may be home to the world record brown trout, but I stifled a laugh nonetheless as I was reminded of a quote from one of my favorit…
“If I’d hesitated another moment I could have had a bear and T-bone steaks,” joked Oregon hunter Dan Turpin. It was opening day of deer season and he was hunting in the Ochocos.
PENDLETON — Sauren Garton was ready to hit the court with the rest of the Pendleton Bucks volleyball team in just a matter of weeks. Now, she’ll have to wait months.
The plants featured today are usually found at middle elevations in the Blues at widely scattered sites.
The Oregon School Activities Association executive board voted today to move high school football and other fall sports to the spring of 2021.
The OSAA executive board is set to meet next week to further discuss how to proceed with the fall sports season. The executive board last week delayed the start of the season to Sept. 23, and …
CHEROKEE, N.C. — Anglers stood shoulder-to-shoulder. Bobbers and indicators alike pockmarked the river between more active anglers trying to make their own Gordian knot by whipping dry flies a…
The plants featured this week are from middle and upper elevations across the Blues, as the places to find plants blooming move upward. Now is when the heat and lack of moisture begin to combi…
For much of my life, the upper Umatilla River has served as a place of refuge. As a child, my parents drove our 1955 Mercury station wagon from Weston to the heart of the Umatilla Indian Reser…
The planned expansion of Oregon’s Port of Morrow onto 90 acres of farmland has hit a roadblock after a key rezoning decision was overturned.
One person was injured after a Milton-Freewater teenager allegedly caused a crash in College Place on Wednesday evening, according to Washington State Patrol.
LA GRANDE — The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has voted to move its football championship to the spring of 2021, just as it did with the rest of its fall sports.
HERMISTON — There will be “Friday Night Lights” for the Hermiston Bulldogs this coming school year, but instead of playing in the fall, football will begin in March.
PENDLETON — Just when Blue Mountain Community College thought it had a plan in place for athletics for the upcoming school year, the Northwest Athletic Conference updated its plan of action.
PENDLETON — One plan leads to another, but the Oregon School Activities Association has not given up on trying to put together an athletic calendar for its nearly 300 member schools.
The Pacific Northwest is uniquely wonderful, in no small part because it actually has seasons. Now, fall has long been my favorite season and even though it marks the end of my unfettered play…
The first two of this week’s plants are about 4 to 6 feet in height and growing in wet soil along the southbound Interstate 84 exit ramp to the Mt. Emily road. The other two plants are bloomin…
The executive board of the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA), which regulates high school sports in the state, decided after a three-day work session this week to delay high school f…
WALLOWA COUNTY — Rocky Mountain elk have often been a controversial animal in Wallowa County, but one long-standing issue — the number of elk on Zumwalt Prairie’s private lands — has finally b…
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It took a moment for what I’d just seen to sink in. I thought I’d seen a couple of high school kids toss a shark head over the railing of the pier, but that couldn’t be …
“Any day catching wild trout on the fly is a good day,” I said to my buddy Derek as we traversed a bedrock cascade on one of our favorite mountain trout streams. It had been a couple years sin…
All of the plants featured this week can still be found blooming along Ruckel Ridge. The ridge was once acclaimed by a botanist in Corvallis as one of the seven best places to find and view wi…
PENDLETON — Three individuals and a horse headline the latest list of inductees into the Pendleton Round-Up and Happy Canyon Hall of Fame, according to a press release from the hall of fame.
DENVILLE, N.J. — Ross Cocheo works in the healthcare industry, loves playing rugby, airbrushing custom fishing lures, creating humorous videos on his YouTube channel (The English Channel Fishi…
“Lay the fly on the water. Strip line out. That’s right. Now shake the rod tip.”
Last week, I drove from Interstate 84 to Ukiah and back north over Battle Mountain, with short side trips. The weather was perfect. Many plants in that area are at their peak of blooming. The …
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is in the third year of a review of its big game regulations meant to improve regulations and align them with current biological objectives for wildl…
The Pacific Northwest Golf Association is canceling the remainder of its 2020 tournament schedule because of surges in coronavirus cases it announced Monday, but the Oregon Golf Association ha…
PENDLETON — Angling for early season stream trout and hunting spring mushrooms are two activities I look forward to.
The flowers selected for this week’s article display the colors of our flag — red, white and blue — and all three plants are native to the United States. All three are still blooming at middle…
BOISE, Idaho — I’m not sure I want kids. I mean, I love kids, and I really enjoy the opportunity to teach them for a living, but I’m not sure I have the desire to sacrifice everything it takes…
SALEM — In a COVID-19 world, Oregon’s outdoors is more important than ever.
Sunday soccer in Milton-Freewater has been going strong for two-plus decades and appears to be on the rise.
CHICAGO — Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon in which the subject effectively carries out actions directly opposed to his or her values, beliefs or ideas. Not quite an oxymoron…
The four plants featured this week are rather common except for one which is less common in our area. Two of the plants, bunchberry and wild strawberry, grow and bloom down close to the ground…
STANFIELD — Josie Goodrich grew up in the sport of rodeo.
TRI-CITIES, Wash. — Once a teenager with wild dreams of becoming a fish biologist, I set my graduate school sights on studying the prehistoric and long-lived sturgeon that swim among the barge…
All four of the plants featured this week are woody shrubs or small trees that are now in bloom at the lower to middle elevations of the Blue Mountains. All have white flowers, are about the s…
When it comes to fishing, stereotypes that are very real. Make a mental tally next time you go fishing, and odds are, most everyone around you will fit into one of the categories below. Which …
This week’s article presents four very common plants that help to demonstrate the wide variety of plants we have in the Blues. None of these plants are likely to be mistaken for one of the oth…
WALLOWA LAKE — We rented a boat at the marina, Number 42, called Lucky. We appreciated the name more when we saw the monikers given to a few of the other boats: Flippy and Oopsi.
PENDLETON — Nancy’s voice echoed through the stand of old-growth fir.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The report rang off the canyon walls, and I flattened myself in the river. Though the shot was maybe 10 yards overhead, the resulting rock chips tumbled down the canyon wall…
I’ve been remiss in not including what to me is an important bit of information in this year’s articles. Some of the wildflowers are much more abundant than others, and some are rare and in da…
MILTON-FREEWATER — Milton-Freewater Municipal Golf Course is closing for maintenance and greens aerification after the 1 p.m. tee time on the front nine on Sunday.
SALEM — State parks in Oregon will be open for free day use on Saturday, June 6.
WALLOWA LAKE — Out-of-towners from Idaho, Montana, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, California as well as many places in Oregon were evident over the weekend at Wallowa Lake State Park. Day use ar…
PENDLETON — Contractors have started removing the final remaining infrastructure at the Dale administrative site, including utilities, water system, waste water system, water system building, …
BROOKINGS — I’m waist-deep in the surging surf. Low tide was an hour ago, and the tide is coming back in. I have maybe 30 minutes before I have to find higher ground, and I’ve caught nothing n…
LA GRANDE — The new Eastern Oregon University women’s lacrosse program added 12 more athletes to its roster, bringing the number of players in the first-year program to 13.
Last weekend, after all the heavy rain the week before, we took a brief run up Cabbage Hill to see what more may be in bloom now. The area around Deadman Pass was a treasure chest of wildflowe…
MOUNT HOOD — Oregon's tallest mountain will reopen for recreation over two months after trailheads and day-use areas were closed amid the coronavirus pandemic.
BOARDMAN — When is a wildlife refuge not really a refuge? How about when the wildlife inhabiting it cannot be considered safe from hunting?
LA GRANDE — When the coronavirus pandemic led to the cancellation of race after race that cyclists Elijah Romer and Sean Lerner had planned to enter, the La Grande duo decided to improvise.
