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A management team will be overseeing firefighting efforts on the Powder River Fire burning in rangeland southwest of Richland. Beau Burley, deputy fire chief for the BLM’s Vale District, said […]
BAKER CITY — Nic Carman tried to calm nerves before the first junior golf tournament at Quail Ridge Golf Course. The tournament, held July 10, had 24 entrants, with 17 […]
The Powder River Fire was spreading south on Saturday, July 18, moving away from the Powder River, Highway 86 and Richland. Buzz Harper, chief of the Keating Rural Fire Protection […]
Open burning, including burn barrels, will be banned within the Baker City limits starting at midnight Thursday, July 16. The Baker City Fire Department announced the burn ban. What’s prohibited: […]
Brett Thomas and I share an interest — obsession is perhaps not an exaggeration — with the 1960 Anthony Burn. Until the era of “megafires” arrived in Northeastern Oregon a […]
BAKER CITY — The Baker School District has started to transform a 1.5-acre patch of dirt into what officials expect will be a lush lawn. A contractor has started leveling […]
The Baker City Brewers wrapped up a busy month-long, 22-game season by splitting a doubleheader against the La Grande Legacy Legends under the lights Wednesday night, July 15, at the […]
Instead of taking reservations from campers as usual in July, employees from the Anthony Lakes Outdoor Recreation Association have been canceling them and issuing refunds. The Anthony Fire, sparked by […]
Renae Robbins remembers fondly when the Hells Canyon Motorcycle Rally brought many hundreds of people to Baker City to celebrate their shared affinity for two-wheelers. She’d love to see the […]
The Anthony Fire is 6% contained Light rain fell on the Salmon and Olive Butte fires Thursday morning, July 16, aiding fire crews who have made progress on the two […]
BAKER CITY — Baker County commissioners plan to solicit proposals from contractors interested in managing the county-owned Hewitt and Holcomb parks on Brownlee Reservoir near Richland, and six other park [...
BAKER CITY — A few Baker City residents asked the Baker City Council on Tuesday, July 14, to put on the Nov. 3 ballot a measure that would give city […]
That’s a $21,500 annual increase, but the new contract doesn’t include performance bonuses as his original contract did BAKER CITY — Baker City Manager Barry Murphy’s new contract doesn’t include [...
Fire crews took advantage of light rain and cooler temperatures on Tuesday, July 14, to keep three major fires burning in and near Baker County from spreading. Lightning started all […]
Release party is July 25 for ‘A Dance of Birds’ by Angela Blair and Sherri Linnemeyer BAKER CITY — Angela Blair wrote a poem, and she knew just the right […]
BAKER CITY — A Baker City man who was arrested July 1 and charged with selling cocaine and methamphetamine was arrested again on July 10 for allegedly attaching a GPS […]
BAKER CITY — Dewey Avenue in Baker City between Auburn Avenue and Second Street will be closed for about half a day on Tuesday, July 21, as the Oregon Department […]
BAKER CITY — Baker County’s parks advisory board opposes a proposal that a county commissioner broached earlier this year to potentially pick a contractor to manage county parks. Three board […]
BAKER CITY — The good news so far in this summer of drought is that Baker City residents have been using about the same amount of water as they did […]
Heavier showers are possible later in the day and overnight, according to the National Weather Service As three major wildfires burn in and near Baker County, a swath of rain […]
Becky Dugas can only wait and wonder whether half a century of her family’s history, fashioned by the hands of her grandparents from the lodgepole pines they felled, has been […]
A problem in a locomotive on a Union Pacific freight train caused sparks to shoot from its exhaust stack, igniting at least three small fires beside the tracks between Haines […]
Firefighters have congregated in Granite, the historic gold-mining town about 45 miles west of Baker City in Grant County, to protect its homes and other buildings from the Olive Butte […]
Daniel LaPlaca isn’t exactly comfortable, but he feels a lot better about the situation in Granite on Sunday evening than he did 24 hours earlier. LaPlaca is mayor of the […]