Durkee News

A Washington couple accused of drawing welfare and other government benefits while living in a $1.2 million home and traveling around the world has pleaded guilty to defrauding the government.

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.

The U.S. Justice Department says Seattle police have engaged in excessive force that violates federal law and the Constitution.

Children and staff at the Durkee Road Church of God of Prophecy Day Care were excited Wednesday when they could move out of church classrooms and back into their own building.