Heppner News

Local author Connie Battaile will use historical photos and maps to revisit unusual Oregon events such as the Heppner flood of 1903 during a free "Out of the Ordinary Oregon" program in the Ruch Branch Library, 7919 Highway 238, from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday.

N. Christian Anderson III, former publisher and CEO of The Orange County Register, has been named publisher of The Oregonian.

A local helicopter pilot who survived one crash and helped rescue survivors of a missing family on Bear Camp Road has been killed in a crash while installing power lines.

Kay Rene Qualls, left, of Heppner, Ore., and DeeAnn Shafer, of Peone Prairie, stand in front of Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner, Ore., on May 6.They found out recently that they were switched shortly after being born 56 years ago.

Greg Smith to vote for the tax hike. There was also talk then that the GOP would seek an opponent to challenge Smith, a five-term incumbent, in the 201o Republican primary.

HEPPNER, Ore.-- A warning if you live near, or go camping at, Willow Creek Reservoir outside of Heppner, Oregon.

The state issued a health advisory for Willow Creek Reservoir near Heppner in northeast Oregon today after tests confirmed the presence of blue-green algae.

In an isolated stretch of sagebrush and rimrock 91 miles east of Bend, a 21-year-old cowboy with big dreams climbs into a narrow chute and sits on the back of a squirming bronco, as cowboys have done in this part of central Oregon for decades.

It started with a thunderstorm that drove the citizens of Heppner indoors. The previous month had been dry, and everyone was praying for rain, but when it came down in torrents and turned to hail the size of chestnuts, the best thing to do was go inside and wait it out.

A 30-year-old teacher at Heppner Junior/High School may have had sex with two teenage students, ages 15 and 17, according to the Morrow County Sheriff Kenneth Matlack.

Joann Green Byrd , a Spokane Daily Chronicle reporter and editor in the 1960s and 1970s, has just published a book about one of the Northwest's deadliest natural disasters.

A Heppner couple are in jail after a meth lab was discovered in their home, authorities said.

Doctors and nurses at Kadlec Regional Medical Center have been seeing double and even triple lately as new mothers gave birth to six sets of twins and a set of triplets in a week.

In my continuing quest to run at least one race in each of Oregon's 36 counties, Morrow County in north-central Oregon has been one of the most stubborn.

In dismissing the complaints, Bersin wrote that neither complaint provided evidence that either Democrat had violated ORS.

She faces 1 count of aggravated murder, 4 counts of manslaughter, a criminal mistreatment charge and abandonment of a child.

Once again, political ideology got in the way of economic reality at the Oregon Capitol.

Araceli Velasquez Espain will be arraigned on Tuesday, June 16th. - Morrow County District Attorney Elizabeth A. Ballard and Attorney General John Kroger today announced that a grand jury has indicted Araceli Velasquez Espain on multiple counts for the death of her infant son.

Greg Smith of Heppner isn't someone who gets his name in the paper a lot. But the Republican state representative from Morrow County has been all over the news this week for something unusual he did in the Oregon Legislature.

A woman accused of dumping a newborn baby in a port-a-pottie near Hermiston will be treid in court in Heppner.