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La Grande School District Assistant Superintendent wins 2025 Crystal Apple Leadership Award
LA GRANDE — A long time La Grande school administrator was honored at the 2025 Crystal Apple Awards ...
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Looking at the city’s piggy bank
LA GRANDE — The city of La Grande is one step from having a 2025-26 general fund budget ...
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Crash near Wallowa injures one, kills another
WALLOWA — One man died and another suffered injuries early Friday, May 9, when their vehicles collided on ...
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Paul Allen estate to sell Portland Trail Blazers
The Portland Trail Blazers are going up for sale, the organization announced on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday ...
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Northeast Oregon Department of Forestry to run fire training session May 13 at MERA
UNION COUNTY — Residents may notice smoke coming from the Mount Emily Recreation Area on May 13, but ...
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Foundation raises more than $20K for imaging machine
ENTERPRISE — Wallowa Memorial Hospital should be getting a new peripheral vascular sonogram by midsummer after the Circle ...
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Future housing development in La Grande could get a helping hand
LA GRANDE — An infrastructure project to support future housing in La Grande recently took a tentative step ...
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Small turnout greets candidates in Wallowa County
ENTERPRISE — A couple dozen people showed up Sunday, April 27, for what was deemed the smallest turnout ...
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Senate Bill would create program for lumber graders
SALEM — The Oregon Senate on Monday, April 28, passed a bill to establish a lumber-grading pilot training ...
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Wyden hears from growers on tariffs
PENDLETON — Before leaving Pendleton to head to Grant County, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden stopped by the Umatilla ...
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Defendant in La Grande murder case gets life sentence
LA GRANDE — Union County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Powers sentenced a La Grande man to life in ...
Crime & Justice
Kyron Horman’s disappearance in Portland remains unsolved on 15th anniversary
June 4 will mark the 15th anniversary of the disappearance of 7-year-old Kyron Horman from Skyline Elementary School ...
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La Grande hosts public hearings on urban renewal, city budgets
LA GRANDE — The La Grande Budget Committee will host public hearings in May to discuss the 2025-26 ...
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Wallowa County board hears complaints about forestland
ENTERPRISE — There were a couple of comments on the condition of Wallowa County’s forests Wednesday, April 23, ...
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Downtown La Grande avenue reopens following the removal of a roadside bomb
LA GRANDE — Law enforcement successfully recovered and destroyed a roadside bomb found near downtown La Grande on ...
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Employees from Baker City Safeway store, closing in late May, urged to attend ‘resource rodeo’ May 6 to learn about jobs, social services
WorkSource Oregon, a state agency, is sponsoring an event May 6 in Baker City designed to help employees ...
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New Pizza Hut opens in Island City
ISLAND CITY — A former favorite pizza spot has returned to Union County.
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Jury returns guilty verdict in La Grande murder case
LA GRANDE — A A Union County jury on Monday, April 21, convicted a La Grande man for ...
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Baker City man dies when car goes off road into Burnt River near Huntington
BAKER COUNTY — A Baker City man died when the car he was driving went off a steep ...
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Jadeyn Perin dons crown as 2025 CJD queen
Flora silversmith and spouse serving as grand marshals JOSEPH — The Chief Joseph Days Rodeo has a new ...
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Historic Imnaha Store gets new lease on life
New owners want to see it last another hundred years IMNAHA — The new owners of the Imnaha ...
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Wallowa Legion Hall becomes community building
WALLOWA — The Kruse Post 72 of the American Legion at Wallowa has worked out a deal to ...
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Let ‘em roll
UKIAH — Races rev up in Ukiah on Thursday, April 24, when children and adults test their pine ...
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New Western store opens in Enterprise
ENTERPRISE — Elizabeth Kokesh, horsewoman and collector of all things vintage Western, came to Wallowa County four years ...
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Pet rescues, shelters face high fines from state
After about 10 years with Fuzz Ball Animal Rescue in Hermiston, Robin Barker, its vice president, is considering ...