A fire damaged on Baker City home Friday morning, and on Friday evening at another property firefighters stopped flames fromspreading to a trailer to a home.
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Volunteers were busy buzzing around work benches Saturday morning in a work bay at Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative’s headquarters in Baker City.
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A happy occasion for the employees of Coffee Corral in Baker City was also tinged with sadness.
Parents of Baker School District students will have a chance to ask Superintendent Mark Witty during a Zoom meeting Wednesday evening about plans to possibly resume in-person classes for young…
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A Sumpter man has been convicted in two separate cases of crimes involving unlawful possession of firearms and poaching wildlife, and burglarizing a Sumpter business.
If Baker County residents can continue to avoid the coronavirus for the next couple of weeks, younger Baker School District students might be able to return to their classrooms by Oct. 12.
More than $126,000 is on its way to Baker County to support arts and cultural organizations.
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The Baker County Board of Commissioners will discuss a mountain road blocked recently by a locked gate when they meet Wednesday morning, Sept. 30.
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Getting your flu shot is easy this year — you don’t even have to get out of your car.
Baker City Police Chief Ray Duman told city councilors Tuesday that the cost to clean up more than half a dozen properties with accumulations of trash would cost much more than the city budget…
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Jamie Agard hates to drive past Brooklyn Primary School because she hates to hear her son weeping.
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A retail void dating back nearly a decade along a remote section of Interstate 84 could be filled soon.
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The Baker County Sheriff’s Office and Baker City Police Department recovered bicycle parts and an estimated 50 stolen bicycles in various states of assembly from a property near the Baker City…
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A late-season lightning storm sparked two wildfires southeast of Baker City on Friday, but crews from multiple agencies doused both blazes over the weekend.
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Crossroads Carnegie Art Center in Baker City celebrated its 22nd-annual Art at the Crossroads with an opening reception Sept. 4.
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Crossroads Carnegie Art Center is expanding one of its programs to bring art to more kids this fall.
Baker County has asked its attorney to address a locked gate installed recently across a mountain road that two county commissioners say is a county road open to the public.
With two weeks of online classes finished in the Baker School District, families and school staff continue to face the challenges of fine-tuning the system.
The Eltrym Theatre marquee hasn’t lit up for months, but that all changed on Friday, Sept. 18.
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With the general election 6 weeks away, the Baker County Clerk’s office is preparing for another round of ballots to count.
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Although in-person activities aren’t happening at the Baker County Library, the staff is putting together special kits and online events for youth.
Fourteen people applied for the Baker City manager job, and a selection committee comprising three city councilors who met Thursday night pared the list of candidates to five.
A Halfway man serving a three-year probation term for starting a Sept. 20, 2018, fire on his property that spread to adjoining land and burned an estimated 800 acres has been charged with diso…
Three of the six people charged with multiple drug crimes in a police raid of a Baker City home on Tuesday have been charged with additional crimes in connection with the investigation.
Baker County’s air quality improved slightly Thursday and Friday and could be even better early this weekend, but forecasters say wildfire smoke likely will slink back and sully skies for much…
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Ted White strolls the sidewalk on the north side of Auburn Avenue on a morning that more resembles London cloaked in its famous autumn fog than Baker City on the final week of summer.
A Vale man held at the Baker County Jail since January on murder and assault charges now faces an additional, more serious, assault charge.
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Six people were arrested on drug-related charges Tuesday morning after a search warrant was served at a property in a southeast Baker City neighborhood.
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A representative for Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort, which wants to replace the Baker County Chamber of Commerce in operating a visitors center in Baker City, challenged county commissioners We…
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Baker County commissioners are slated to resume their discussion Wednesday of a topic that generated controversy last winter, the choice of a contractor to run a visitors center in Baker City.
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Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative (OTEC) has sent a five-man crew and a superintendent to assist residents left without power due to wildfires that devastated the town of Detroit in Marion Cou…
Human-caused wildfires are troubling because they can’t be predicted, Todd Pederson said, but the danger is even more acute when smoke blocks views like a pea soup fog.
Iva Mace knows enough about Social Security that she was immediately suspicious when she answered the call to her home phone recently.
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The pall of smoky pollution that has cloaked Baker County and much of Oregon the past several days is likely to persist at least into this weekend.
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Visitors to the community as well as people who live in Baker City should be on the alert to keep their personal belongings safe and secure, Police Chief Ray Duman advises.
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While the most destructive wildfires in Oregon history are ravaging much of the state west of the Cascades, the northeast corner, where blazes are more common, remains relatively calm.
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A Baker City family whose dog was stolen from their yard on July 19 ended their 43-day search for their pet when they found his remains over an embankment on Old Highway 30 southeast of Baker …
Because the U.S. Department of Agriculture has extended a waiver for the Baker School District through Dec. 31, the District is providing free meals to everyone, 18 and younger, at several locations.
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