Canyon City News

Reporting from John Day, Ore. - When Jessie Bratcher's fiancee told him the baby might not be his, that she had been raped two months earlier, he went quiet.

This morning's Oregonian reports on the trial of a Jessie Bratcher, a former Oregon Army National Guard soldier who served in Iraq, came home and later shot and killed a man.

Seeking information on Rev. George Fiske Round who died in Grant County, Oregon in 1927.

A helicopter rescue team reached the crash site of a single-engine airplane Friday afternoon in mountainous Wheeler County near its boundary with Crook County, said Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer of Canyon City.

Authorities eradicated a marijuana garden with more than 8,500 starter plants this week in Malheur National Forest, about seven miles south of Canyon City, the Oregon State Police reported.

A helicopter, one of six, flies the Williams Creek fire east of Glide. Wild fires keep popping up in the central and southern Cascades of Oregon, as smoldering lightning strikes morphed from small starts to large fires today.

During the building of the west, Chinese immigrants played a large role in railroad construction, mining and other intense labor occupations." Many of them were involved in jobs that no one else would do." In John Day, Oregon, there's a museum like no other that covers both the Chinese laborer and the merchant.

A helicopter, one of six, flies the Williams Creek fire east of Glide. Wild fires keep popping up in the central and southern Cascades of Oregon, as smoldering lightning strikes morphed from small starts to large fires today.

Fire crews are battling to contain two wildfires in central Oregon that have burned onto a mix of forests protected by the Bureau of Land Management, prompting state officials to close the areas to visitors.