Representatives of an 11-person advisory committee presented to the Baker School Board Monday their scaled-back recommendations for remodeling Baker High School to accommodate seventh- and eighth-graders and making other improvements to the school district’s buildings.
Representatives of an 11-person advisory committee presented to the Baker School Board Monday their scaled-back recommendations for remodeling Baker High School to accommodate seventh- and eig…
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A video camera captured images of two suspects in an arson fire outside a downtown business Tuesday evening that burned mattresses and box springs and produced enough heat to partially melt a …
The Baker City Council has agreed to keep Fred Warner Jr. working as city manager after he retires through the state’s pension system.
Baker School District officials have disconnected an alarm system at Brooklyn Elementary School after a false alarm this afternoon at the school, which houses kindergarten through third-grade …
Representatives of an 11-person advisory committee presented their scaled-back recommendations for funding school improvements to the Baker School Board Monday night.
Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative has applied with Baker City for permission to install a charging station for electric cars on the east side of Resort Street between Thatcher's Ace Hardware a…
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POLICE LOG
Alesia Wilson has been missing her mother, Linda Peterson, since the Baker City woman disappeared on March 15.
The wife of a Baker City man who died in a February hunting accident near Unity has filed a $960,000 wrongful death lawsuit against her husband’s hunting partner.
From their lodges scattered across Oregon, from the Coast to the high desert to the mountains and the valleys, the Elks were all headed to one place — Baker City.
Pilot Flying J Travel Centers has withdrawn its application for a project in Baker City that the property owner said was dead more than three weeks ago.
A review of three bids submitted to the Baker County Commission for a contract to provide ambulance services in Baker City and about half of the rest of the county will be the subject of publi…
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FUNERALS PENDING
Several people told the Baker City Planning Commission Wednesday evening that they oppose an application from Verizon Wireless to build a 70-foot-tall cell tower north of the Fairgrounds.
SALEM — The Oregon Court of Appeals Thursday granted a temporary stay on Gov. Kate Brown’s executive order imposing a 90-day ban on the sale of flavored nicotine and marijuana vaping products.
LA GRANDE — A group of advocates for returning passenger train service to Eastern Oregon will meet Oct. 26 in La Grande for what they bill as the Eastern Oregon Passenger Rail Summit.
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Baker City will be the focal point of the Wagyu cattle industry this weekend.
A documentary featuring a notable episode in Baker County, and Oregon, history will premiere Monday on Oregon Public Broadcasting.
A Huntington man and his father were both charged with fourth-degree assault Monday after the man’s mother called police and said the two were fighting.
SALEM — Supporters of a petition to recall Gov. Kate Brown came up short of the signatures needed for a ballot challenge, Oregon Republican Party Chair Bill Currier said Monday.
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It’s not every day you can watch a helicopter land in the middle of Second Street and then see a car’s roof cut off.
Baker City will play host to a Special Olympics swim meet for the first time on Sunday, Oct. 20, from 10 a.m. to noon at Sam-O Swim Center, 580 Baker St.
Oregon's Liquor Control Commission and the Oregon Health Authority on Friday, Oct. 11, rolled out a ban on the sale of all flavored cannabis and nicotine vaping products in response to a growi…
The potent cold front that barged through Baker County Tuesday afternoon ushered in record-breaking chill more common to December than to early October.
Police are continuing to search for a man identified as the suspect in a Monday morning shooting that has left a Baker City man in critical condition in a Boise hospital for the past week.
Theresa Ball is trying to figure out how to keep her Baker City business open after it becomes illegal to sell her most popular products.
A plan to clean up graffiti at the Baker City Skate Park last month took a wrong turn even before the work got started.
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SALEM — Governor Kate Brown announced today that she is inviting applications for the position of Baker County District Attorney, to fill a vacancy created by her appointment of District Attor…
Clear skies and winds that calmed after a blustery Wednesday allowed the temperature to plummet to a record low of 15 degrees this morning at the Baker City Airport.
Baker City Public Works Department crews had to contend with snow last week while building a retaining wall below Goodrich Lake, a drinking water source in the Elkhorn Mountains.
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Baker City Manager Fred Warner Jr.’s proposal to retire from the state’s retirement system and then be rehired on a one-year contract remains just that — a proposal.
ONTARIO — What happens when one of the most famous rappers alive today headlines an impromptu concert in a sleepy city in Eastern Oregon?
OXBOW — Travel will be restricted across Hells Canyon Dam on several days later this month due to maintenance and repair work on the Idaho Power Company facility.
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School leaders and community partners took a run at improving test scores over time last week when they traveled to early learning centers throughout the state in the hope of establishing such…
HAINES — Veterinarian Josh Anderson has turned a Haines building into a multi-business development where customers can attend to their health and to their hair.
Searchers found the body of Andrew Dean Dennis of Haines late Sunday morning in a nearly sheer rock chute in the Wallowa Mountains, eight days after the 60-year-old Haines man failed to return…
A Baker City man was flown by Life Flight to a Boise hospital with injuries sustained in a shooting incident early this morning in south Baker City.
The death of Andrew Dennis, a 60-year-old Haines man who was the subject of a week-long search in the Wallowa Mountains, "appears to be a tragic accident," according to the Baker County Sherif…
