Local golfers are taking part in the Senior Oregon Open Invitational at Wildhorse Resort and Casino and The Golf Course at Birch Creek.
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UMATILLA — The 16th annual Bob Brinkley Memorial Turkey Shoot fundraiser golf tournament is accepting team and individual entries for its Saturday, Nov. 21, event held at Big River Golf Course…
LA GRANDE — The COVID-19 pandemic meant Eastern Oregon University head baseball coach Mike McInerney had less time for in-person recruiting as he would have liked.
I’ve never experienced anything quite like spot-and-stalk mule deer hunting in the foothills of the Blue Mountains. The open expanse of golden wheat stubble and grasslands pressures a hunter i…
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The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest is proposing to increase fees at 28 campgrounds and to charge fees at 24 other recreation sites, most of them also campgrounds, that are free now. The chang…
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HERMISTON — With Heppner’s Blake Knowles holding the lead with a time of 8.7 seconds on two runs, Dalton Massey knew he had to have a quick run if he wanted to finish atop the leaderboard in t…
LA GRANDE — The Eastern Oregon University football team will play a seven-game regular season schedule in the upcoming season that will feature a contest against each Frontier Conference opponent.
LA GRANDE — The Eastern Oregon University volleyball team edged rival Southern Oregon University to be selected as the preseason favorite in the Cascade Collegiate Conference coaches poll, whi…
HERMISTON — Joe Blankenship was just a few weeks old when he attended his first rodeo. By the time he was 5 years old, he was helping his dad Bill separate horses and bulls.
Flyfishing was something I shied away from for years because of the elitist culture common in certain cliques.
Isaac's first ruffed grouse came easy.
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WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Three years after it was condemned, the Burnt Cabin Creek Trail Bridge on the popular South Fork Walla Walla trail system is on a priority list to be replaced with funding…
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HEPPNER — Earning a trip to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo is no easy feat during the best of times. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, cowboys were fighting for every last dollar t…
Each fall for three decades, my family staked a worn canvas tent at the confluence of the North and South forks of the Umatilla River. The rustic U.S. Forest Service campground was always empt…
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Jeff Yanke was optimistic about this year’s run of Lostine River coho salmon, but he was still surprised by how many fish began battling their way up the Columbia River earlier in 2020.
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As they stood on a wide expanse of gravel behind Hermiston High School, members of the school’s softball team could list all sorts of benefits to the new softball complex that will be built at…
“King of the woods.” Otherwise known as the ruffed grouse. I won’t go so far as to agree with those who believe ruffs are the king of all upland birds, yet I am yielding to this “king of the w…
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EUGENE — Pac-12 sports are one step closer to returning in Oregon.
When I see the moon full after the middle of August, it takes me back.
It’s no secret that treble hooks represent a greater threat to fish than single hooks. With three hooks in one, a treble is a much more efficient tool anglers can use against their quarry than…
“… ouzels seem to show excellent taste in their choice of surroundings.” — Charles Batchelder
VIRGIN, Utah — Alphabetically, Zion National Park is last on the list of our 62 national parks, but it’s certainly not least. According to the National Park Service, “The rivers of Zion Nation…
LA GRANDE — The new championships dates for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics 2020 season — which the NAIA recently moved to the spring of 2021 — have been set.
With dry conditions in the mountains now, this is the last article until next spring. I hope the articles and flower photos have brought some relief from the stresses of the pandemic.
LA GRANDE — The Eastern Oregon University football team looks like it will be playing its Frontier Conference opponents in the spring after all.
The last several years most plants are dried up in the Blues in late August by the sun and lack of rain. The articles this week and next will each have at least one plant still in bloom, along…
FILLMORE, Utah — Tonight, I’m writing my column at the last minute from my motel in Fillmore, Utah. If you’ve never heard of it, don’t worry, neither had I.
The plants in today’s article are among those still worth finding in the late summer.
Collapsing my tenkara rod, I reflected on the brilliant California golden trout I had just released back into the trickle of a mountain stream dropping from a series of high lakes in the Ansel…
SALEM — Everyone can fish for free in Oregon on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 15-16.
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 recor…
“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.
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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…
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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.
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One person was injured after a Milton-Freewater teenager allegedly caused a crash in College Place on Wednesday evening, according to Washington State Patrol.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.