Fossil News

Oregon State Police said on Wednesday that four people from Scappoose, all related, were involved in a fight with a Portland hunter who died mysteriously nearly three weeks ago in Central Oregon.

Wheeler County Sheriff Bob Hudspeth has asked the Oregon State Police to help with the investigation of 61-year-old Frank Means of Portland.

By Tove Tupper A October 13, 2009 A NEAR FOSSIL, Ore. - The Wheeler County Sheriff's Office have identified 37-year-old Daniel Townsend as the pilot killed in a helicopter crash Monday near Fossil in Central Oregon.

FOSSIL - A small plane crashed in the Ochoco National Forest on Friday, but the state police says everyone aboard survived.

Among the sagebrush and scrub trees that inhabit this portion of Eastern Oregon, it's easy to miss the aptly named Painted Hills.

It's not much of a hiking destination, but the Painted Hills Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is too beautiful to ignore.

Oxidized minerals in volcanic ash spewed across the Eastern Oregon landscape thousands of years ago created these spectacular hills at the Painted Hills unit of the John Day Fossil Beds northwest of Dayville.

The new Oregon Paleo Lands Institut e field center stands out bright next to Wheeler County's historic courthouse and the sturdy, comfortable homes that line the narrow streets.

Grant is a long-time union organizer and political activist. Previously, he contributed "Book Review: Betty Roberts, An Oregon Pioneer" . Although he only campaigned briefly in Oregon during his one presidential campaign, Oregona s status as one of the few primary states when his brothers were running for president brought Ted Kennedy to Oregon as ...

Thomas Hoover, Thomas Condon and John Day are some names you're likely to encounter on your trip.

The Service Creek Store, restaurant, raft rental, vehicle shuttle and lodge are grouped together on Oregon 19, just past a sign reading "Congestion." As you descend Oregon 19's long, gradual grade 20 miles southeast of Fossil, you see three things, in order.

The Oregon Paleo Lands Institute, a nonprofit that educates people about paleontology and geology, is dedicating its new Field Center on Sept.

An eclectic collection of rocks, minerals and fossils spanning 40 years of collecting is being liquidated.

Willy the woolly mammoth , a fixture in Fossil. Caty Clifton of Athena, a small farm town north of Pendleton, was randomly selected as the winner of a central Oregon getaway in the "Send Terry on the Road" contest.

The Paleo Lands Field Center in Fossil plans a Sept. 12 dedication. Fossil has a new visitor attraction.

A man who set at least six fires in Eastern Oregon last year pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted arson and was sentenced by a Morrow County judge to 4½ years in prison.

A man who set at least six fires in Eastern Oregon last year pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted arson and was sentenced by a Morrow County judge to 4 1/2 years in prison.

Temperatures over 100 degrees baked crews on the McGinnis Creek Fire yesterday, but firefighters continued to bring the 3,417-acre fire closer to containment.

Oregon Department of Forestry Incident Management Team 1 was dispatched and assumed control of the McGinnis Creek Fire on Sunday, July 26, 2009.

Despite triple-digit temperatures, crews have the 3,417 acre McGinnis Creek fire about 50 percent contained.