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Brock Eckstein of Elgin talked to the group about his Middle East service and injuries.

Baker City officials are working on a revision of the ordinance regulating construction of homes and other buildings in the floodplain, but the changes aren't likely to have major effects for property owners.

Oregon's throwback to the '60s, Breitenbush Hot Springs , is tucked in 154 acres in the Willamette National Forest about 10 miles upstream from Detroit on the Breitenbush River.

And so he was pleased to learn recently that some stony symbols of Baker County's past will return here, to what Bloomer considers their rightful place.

Commission Chairman Fred Warner Jr. is seeking public opinion about a concept that would cut the cost of running the court.

Shawn Kelso and Carol Singmaster toasted the start of BBBBW, which featured Turmoil and 13, some of the last beers that Kelso brewed for Barley Brown's in Baker City.

BAKER CITY, Ore. -- Oregon State Police say weather may have played a factor in a deadly car crash on Interstate 84, north of Baker City on Tuesday afternoon.

A woman was killed this afternoon after she rolled her pickup truck on a snow- and ice-covered Interstate 84 near Baker City.

Sharon Karman looks at the scrapbook pages created by Mary Jo Grove. Grove has been scrapping since her sons were in high school.

To comply with a Oregon Department of Education mandate to produce computer-literate students by eighth grade, educators in the Baker School District are wheeling in computers and smart boards in an effort to jump-start technological proficiency.

I had of late been lamenting the "islands" of public land east of Baker City - those chunks of ground, some measuring in the hundreds of acres, that are surrounded by private property.

We sympathize with Baker City councilors as they grapple with a pending $2.5 million tab to further cleanse the city's drinking water, which is already admirably pure.