HERMISTON — From Derek Kolbaba’s front door to the Farm-City Pro Rodeo is about a 35-minute drive. It was worth every mile Wednesday, Aug. 10.
ECHO — Stanfield and Echo school districts made arrangements with Family Health Associates to provide sports physicals at no charge for student-athletes. With the fall sports season getting re…
The 69th version of the East-West Shrine All-Star football game ended like none of the 68 games before it.
LA GRANDE — Eastern Oregon University enters the season ranked second in the Cascade Collegiate Conference, receiving 127 points in the preseason poll.
Suppose someone whispered the location of a secret trout hideaway. A remote creek hidden deep at the head of a narrow canyon. With trout as long as your arm. There is no signpost, ax mark on a…
SACRAMENTO — Pendleton’s Nolan Mead earned all-American honors in the triple jump on July 27 at the USA Track & Field National Junior Olympic Championships at Hornet Stadium at Sacramento …
PENDLETON — Derek Bettinson is one of the top hitters to come out of Blue Mountain Community College.
UMATILLA — If bumping and spiking interests you, the Blue Mountain Officials Association encourages you to consider volleyball officiating. Anyone who enjoys volleyball and wants to earn a lit…
SACRAMENTO — Hermiston’s Bailey Young picked up her second All-American honor, this time in the shot put, at the USA Track & Field National Junior Olympic Championships on Wednesday, July …
HERMISTON — Omar Medina knows what he’s getting into as he takes over the Hermiston High School girls soccer program.
GILLETTE, Wyo. — Heppner’s Blane Mahoney finished 16th in steer wrestling at the National High School Finals Rodeo from July 17-23.
Events for this year’s East-West All-Star Shrine Game will be back to normal — the normal of 2019.
MILTON-FREEWATER — Studying theater was Kassidy Ruiz’s passion when she graduated from high school.
I try to keep track of which species I’ve written about. Many get short posts on my blog detailing where, when and how I first caught a species, but I often write longer columns like the one y…
SACRAMENTO — Hermiston’s Caden Hottman and Bradley Hottman earned All-American honors Monday, July 25, in the hammer throw at the USA Track & Field National Junior Olympic Championships at…
ATHENA — Nine-man football is coming to a field near you.
JOSEPH — The Chief Joseph Days Rodeo in Joseph, scheduled for July 27-31, will feature famous rodeo clown John Harrison, according to a CJD press release.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Armed with fresh-picked watermelons, the Hermiston 10-12 Little League softball team packed up and headed to the Northwest Regional Tournament.
ORLANDO — The Three Rivers Black girls soccer team made its first trip to the U.S. Youth Soccer National Championship, and finished tied for third with Chicago after dropping a 4-0 semifinal g…
IRRIGON — As one group of youths was reluctant to leave the basketball court, another group was excited to take its place Sunday, July 24, at the second annual Bilingual Basketball Camp at A.C…
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The United State Marine Corps and the American Volleyball Coaches Association announced July 18 that more than 1,200 teams have earned the USMC/AVCA Team Academic Award for th…
LA GRANDE — Eastern Oregon University’s men’s and women’s track and field teams earned U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association National Association of Intercollegiate Athl…
STANFIELD — Lorena Woods had no intention of being an athletic director when she took her first teaching job out of college, but once she started she found she had a passion for it.
PENDLETON — The Beeman Junkins Trail, on the Umatilla National Forest west of Olive Lake, has reopened.
One of the many beautiful things about summer in the Blue Mountains is the opportunity to pack up a mountain bike and fly rod and hit the trail for a little surf-n-turf adventure. The rainbow …
HEPPNER — Kate Page has chopped her way to the STIHL Timbersports U.S. Championships once again.
HERMISTON — The Hermiston School District reminds parents that their student-athletes are required to have a sports physical to participate.
If you’re watching the World Athletics Championships at home or in person, you may have spotted a giant, yellow creature twerking with fans, dancing with athletes and doing cartwheels across H…
PENDLETON — The Pendleton High School volleyball team hosts a youth volleyball camp Aug. 2-4 at the high school.
HERMISTON — Area children can dive in, pedal and dash into the weekend during the Hermiston Kids Triathlon.
PENDLETON — The Blue Mountain Community College volleyball team will host the Summer Slam Volleyball Tournament on Friday and Saturday, July 22-23.
HERMISTON — The Hermiston School District offers free sports physicals for Hermiston students Aug. 9 in the gold gym at Hermiston High School.
PENDLETON — When Murillo Varela was a young boy growing up in Brazil, he and his friends would take a woman’s nylon stocking, fill it full of rags, shape it and use it as a soccer ball.
Jackal Crenshaw’s job is to insert all 165 pounds of himself between one ton of energetic bull and the person who was, until recently, on its back.
BURNS — A Hines couple have been sentenced for their involvement in killing at least seven elk while shooting into the fleeing herd in December 2021.
IRRIGON — Irrigon junior Boyd Davis and Riverside sophomore Riley Lantis earned second-team Eastern Oregon League baseball honors.
Mountains are boring.
PILOT ROCK — Butch Wilson was humble, generous, a beloved father and coach, and one of the most respected men in Pilot Rock.
Standing next to Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, Douglas Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks to the crowd Friday during the the World Athletics Championships in Eugene.
Rudy Winkler, of the United States, competes during qualifying for the men's hammer throw Friday at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene.
HERMISTON — Coca Cola Saturday Night Thunder heats up at Hermiston Raceway next weekend. The planned appearance and racing on Saturday, July 16, with Mr Dizzy Motorsports is cancelled because …
UMATILLA — The Eastern Oregon Mission golf tournament is July 30. The four-person scramble event raises money to help support Agape House and Martha’s House.
IRRIGON — Mark Wyant is no stranger to success on the basketball court, but it wasn’t an easy road.
UKIAH — Two Grant County high school athletes brought home a pair of first-place novice buckles on July 2 from the Ukiah Rodeo, which was held for the first time after a 55-year hiatus.
ENTERPRISE -- The Northeast Oregon Wrestling Club will host a wrestling camp Aug. 4-6 in Enterprise with the Eastern Oregon Mountaineer as clinicians. The camp is in memory of Gary Maben who s…
MEDFORD — Gracelyn Tyree struck out five, and Kylie Virgil drove in three runs as Hermiston beat Bend South 9-8 on Sunday, July 10, in the championship game of the 10-12 state Little League so…
LA GRANDE — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is continuing to release rainbow trout in many lakes and ponds in Northeastern Oregon.
Back behind a screen of limbs, I saw the legs of a bear. Hidden by branches, I could see parts but not the whole. I knew it was a boar.
Hikers and equestrians hoping to visit some of the spectacular alpine lakes and high passes in the Eagle Cap Wilderness over the next few weeks will have to go back in time, in a manner of spe…
HERMISTON — If there is a basketball involved, Mitch Thompson wants to be in the thick of things.
STANFIELD — James Stradley knows he is young and dipping his toes into the shark-infested waters of the Blue Mountain Conference, but the Stanfield football coach is confident his team will be…
UMATILLA — When Kyle and Heidi Sipe first arrived in Umatilla for job interviews in the summer of 1999, they thought they would use the interviews as a practice run as they looked for employment.
BURNS — The Columbia All-Stars defeated Baker 19-3 on Thursday, June 30, to win the District 3 8-10 Little League baseball title.
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