John Day News

On the canyon floor near a treeline, amid sawdust and scrap, the last lumber mill in Grant County is barely holding on.

'Alternative Vehicles, Renewable Fuels' is the theme of the 11th annual SolWest Renewable Energy Fair July 24-26, at the Grant County Fairgrounds in John Day, Ore.

Name-Ed Trembly, 42, Home-John Day, Job Title-Oiler Lumber mills have been at the fiber of Grant County for as long as most anyone can remember but today the county is down to its last mill and it has struggled to get logs.

After taking a thumping over the past year, which has been characterized by cutbacks and staff layoffs, the city is ready to put the final stamp on its budget blueprint for the next two years.

Just a year ago, the unemployment rate in Washington state was 5.5 percent. Today, it's nearly than twice as high, at 9.4 percent.

At one time in Grant County there were enough saw mills to provide work for nearly anyone who wanted it.

A 5/24/2009 - Central Oregon A According to Oregon State Police, Tyler Boyer of Redmond was driving west on Highway 402 just outside of Monument in Grant county when he veered on to the gravel shoulder.

Police say a Redmond-area man died and a John Day resident was seriously injured Saturday morning in a single vehicle traffic crash on Highway 402 about 2 1/2 miles east of Monument in Grant County.

I had a little free time Friday afternoon, so I went to the place where I knew I could find my friend, John Houk.

Vancouver filmmaker Beth Harrington is working on a new documentary titled 'Kam Wah Chung,' about a general store run by two Chinese men in John Day, Ore.

Ken Holliday is among Grant County ranchers who have banded together to fight for grazing rights on public land.

The Bureau of Land Management announced Tuesday that 60 projects across Oregon and Washington would receive $32.4 million in federal stimulus funding, according to a news release from the agency.

The sun-soaked picnic tables at Fremont Meadow in Shevlin Park used to be a little more sheltered, noted Paul Stell, natural resources manager with the Bend Park & Recreation District.

The Oregonian newspaper says a report Friday shows only 16 new jobs have been created and only 73 out of a projected 499 projects are under way.

Kieron Callahan will be only the second student in more than a decade from John Day to compete at an international science fair.

Gary Judd, the new manager of Bend Municipal Airport, stands next to a plane parked at the airport on Thursday.

Two new highway cameras have been added in Eastern Oregon to provide travelers with current information on road conditions.

The northern Oregon landscape dries out in the rain shadow east of the Cascades, but several large rivers and their side streams attract outdoor adventurers to the quiet playgrounds of central and eastern ...

Thousands more wild mustangs and burros roam Western rangelands than the land can support.

A Dayville couple is suing the U.S. Forest Service after being forced to stop grazing their cattle on national forestland southwest of John Day.