At third meeting, Kotek’s transportation workgroup invited lawmakers to discuss their priorities and policy ideas they want to include in 2027 SALEM — Bipartisanship and earlier deliberations over ...

Oregonians kept more than 130,000 mattresses and box springs from landfills during 2025, the first full year of a new statewide recycling program with free collection points in nearly all of the state ...

Danielle Mosteller lights ground fireworks July 3, 2026, in Pendleton, to celebrate the Fourth of July. Mosteller said she purchased $300 worth of fireworks from Walla Walla to celebrate Independence ...

PENDLETON — With just six months left in his term of service, Pendleton City Councilor Sean Butler resigned his seat. Butler, who the council appointed to the Ward 2 seat in July 2025, ran for ...

Anyone who supports “DEI” (diversity, equity, inclusion) supports bigotry and discrimination — and they know it. That’s been the objective of DEI all along: to generate racism, sexism and ...

BAKER CITY — Austin Villalobos was hungry for a hot dog but he ended up with the whole cart. That encounter during the Sumpter flea market over Labor Day weekend in 2025 led Villalobos, 33, a 2011 ...

HERMISTON — The Hermiston City Council will consider a resolution Monday, June 22 to refer recommended city charter changes to the Nov. 3 election. At its May 26 meeting, the council reviewed the ...

HERMISTON — The Rees Training Center near Hermiston earned a top U.S. Army environmental award for burrowing owl conservation. The Oregon Military Department announced the training center in April ...

The Trump administration is backing off from its plans to remove a decade-old ocean monitoring system Oregonians rely on for fishing, recreation, science and emergency services. The National Science ...

After Umatilla County residents voted to move the county seat away from the city of Umatilla in 1868, a committee selected a two-and-a-half acre plot in the southwestern part of the county to place ...

PENDLETON — The InterMountain Education Service District (IMESD) has been awarded a Summer Learning Grant to expand targeted educational opportunities for students across the region. The Oregon ...

BAKER CITY — Norah Esty swapped a life of math equations and classrooms and the bustle of one of America’s great cities for a remote ranch in Baker County where she deals with the antics of sheep and ...