Category: Local News

Umatilla High School is now part of the Amazon Future Engineer program and will receive funding from Amazon to start offering computer science classes to students this Fall. Umatilla High School is one of more than 1,000 high schools across the country currently signed up for...

On 2/21/19 at 9:19 AM, the North East Oregon Regional SWAT Team arrested Ronald D. Lee on a Union County arrest warrant following a Grand Jury Indictment for Murder. The charge stems from the death of Loretta A. Williams, which occurred in the early morning hours of November...

The remote public hearing of the Joint Committee on Carbon Reduction set for Monday, Feb. 25, has been moved to the Baker County Fairgrounds. The hearing, which was originally slated to be hosted at the headquarters of Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative, is scheduled for 5PM....

Veronica Rivera, 46, of Hermiston, Oregon, was sentenced to 6 months in federal prison and 3 years of supervised release for selling fentanyl. According to court documents, in October 2017, the Tactical Diversion Squad of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Blue...

For thousands of students around the state, community college is the first choice or only way to pursue post-secondary educational opportunities or gain job training. Senate Bill 3 – which passed 29-0 today on the Senate floor – would expand opportunities for those students by...

The Bureau of Land Management Vale district will be transferring a wildland fire engine to Nyssa Rural Fire Department to enhance their wildland firefighting capabilities on February 14, 2019. The engine will be transferred under BLM’s new Rural Fire Readiness (RFR)...

The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs is seeking volunteers to work with veterans in Clackamas, Deschutes and Polk counties who may not be aware of the state, county and federal benefits they qualify for or how to access them. It’s part of the brand-new Veteran...

On Monday, February 4th, 2019 at 3:51pm, City of La Grande detectives arrested 31-year-old Sondra Dean, of Eureka, California on a Humboldt County arrest warrant for Child Abduction 2 (felony). On February 4th, 2019 at 2pm the La Grande Police Department dispatch center...

The nominating committees for Baker and Union counties have met and nominated candidates for the upcoming OTEC Board of Director elections. The Union County nominating committee has nominated Greg Howard for position No. 7. Howard is the incumbent in the election. The committee...

The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs Home Loan Program had a banner year in 2018, with an outstanding $102,044,184 in new loan origination — a 21 percent increase over the previous year and the program’s highest total in over two decades. Behind the numbers is...

The Oregon Department of Revenue will begin processing state tax returns on January 28, the same day the IRS will begin processing federal returns. Taxpayers can submit their returns earlier, but processing won’t start until the tax season officially begins. Once...

The Oregon Department of Energy expressed its concern in an official letter to the U.S. Department of Energy late last month, regarding USDOE’s proposal to offer a new interpretation of what constitutes “high-level radioactive waste” at the Hanford Site and...