My endeavor to visit automated snow-measuring sites is much closer to quixotic than to Homeric. A litany of lodgepole pine limbs trying to dislodge my eyeballs, rather than triumphant ascents of ...

UNION COUNTY — The Union County Board of Commissioners have a packed agenda for the regular session meeting Wednesday, Jan. 22, beginning at 9 a.m. in the Joseph Building Annex Conference Room ...

UNION COUNTY — The Union County Chamber of Commerce is once more searching for an executive director. The chamber announced Jan. 14 through a post on social media that Caitlin Harrold is ...

SALEM — Hunters who bought a tag for deer, elk, cougar, bear, pronghorn or turkey in 2024 could be fined $25 if they fail to report on their deer or elk tags, whether or not they hunted or were ...

That’s what Craig Anderson will be hollering again as he sets his sled dog team on the course of the 2025 Eagle Cap Extreme Sled Dog Race outside of Joseph this month. Bill Bradshaw covers news ...

Born and raised in La Grande, Harris, the son of a retired dentist, Dr. Lynn Harris, and Jan Harris, graduated from La Grande High School in 2005. He attended Brigham Young University in Provo ...

Thanks to the angel for calling 911 on the lady in her car at Walmart parking lot Jan. 11. You saved her life. Thank you, sweet person.

LA GRANDE — Not many people celebrate their retirement more than once, let alone three times, but La Grande Fire Chief Emmitt Cornford will be doing just that. Cornford notified City Manager ...

Danielle Weaver figured she’d be shoveling snow in the middle of January rather than spraying water on a wildfire that has killed 17 people and destroyed several thousand homes near Pasadena ...

Do you have a point you’d like to make or an issue you feel strongly about? Submit a letter to the editor or a guest column. The “21-inch rule” protects trees that are 21-inches diameter at ...

LA GRANDE — Sarah Rankin’s career in La Grande started and ended with spinach. “I started working in the spinach fields as a young woman,” Rankin said. “You didn’t make a whole lot of ...

BAKER CITY — The Clements Brothers — identical twins Charles and George Clements — are returning to Baker City to play almost exactly a year after their first show at Churchill School.