A local high school recently received its Cognia accreditation. InterMountain Education Service District announced in a press ...

With wildfires continuing to cloak much of Oregon in acrid smoke, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has extended an air quality advisory, which includes most of Northeastern Oregon, ...

It was unfortunate that not all the major networks aired President Donald Trump’s July 16 speech. While understandably concerned about broadcasting misinformation, which the president consistently ...

LA GRANDE — It’s not uncommon for little kids to dream of making it big and one day playing Major League Baseball. For the vast majority, that fantasy remains a pipe dream, but for Devin Bell that ...

BAKER CITY — Philip and Jason Stone want to drink Sorbenots Coffee everywhere, but a coffeemaker isn’t great for hunting. And a French press tends to break. “It’s pretty tough to figure out how to ...

Unfortunately, there are so many realities we are dealing with today such as affordability, housing, healthcare costs, and others. Underlying all these realities, however, is the need to sustain a ...

One of the frustrations I face as an advocate for forest protection is the continuous stream of wildfire and forest ecology misinformation from government agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service and ...

NORTH POWDER — Porscha Myers never had a cheese bagel until she visited Eastern Oregon — and she lives in upstate New York. Felix Robinson grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, and never saw a rodeo until ...

Although Native Americans had lived in what became Northeastern Oregon for millennia, when the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, the better part of a century would pass before ...

UNION COUNTY — Union County’s budget picture for the next year is set. The Union County Board of Commissioners voted 3-0 Wednesday, June 24, to adopt a fiscal year 2026-27 total budget of just more ...

LA GRANDE — Community members of all ages gathered Wednesday, July 8, at the La Grande Armory Conference Center for Sen. Ron Wyden’s town hall. The Democrat fielded questions on healthcare, forestry, ...

RUSSELL — Stephanie Renee Russell and Alden Jacob Russell, of Imbler; a boy, Ryker Allen Russell. WINDE — Robbie Winde and Gunner Winde, of La Grande; a boy, Liam Ryder Winde. — For other recent ...