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A unique Buddhist temple with roots in a dark chapter of World War II faces an uncertain future, along with this Snake River town's once-thriving Japanese American community.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon state police say a 57-year-old Baker City man has died in a motorcyle crash.

The High Desert Motorcycle Rally is this weekend at the Malheur County Fairgrounds in Ontario, Oregon.

John Dillon, the advertising director of the Argus Observer newspaper in Ontario, has been named publisher.

Treasure Valley Community College will offer classes in viticulture--the growing of wine grapes--for people interested in an industry on the rise in Eastern Oregon.

A s some readers have noticed, this column now appears every other week. But the wines -- and wine values -- keep coming.

ABOVE: Fields of onions flank the highways between Ontario and Vale, on Oregon's eastern border with Idaho.

The Inland Empire League 5A state baseball qualifiers suffered first-round losses Thursday.

Associated Press A May 8, 2009 A ONTARIO, Ore. -- A new 458 area code for Eastern Oregon is going into operation this summer.

I imagine all of us have used an oxymoron, and some of us use them all the time.

A Nyssa School District instructional assistant is facing sexual abuse charges involving an 18-year-old student.

Salem-News.com - April 27, 2009 - 4:13 pm Apr-27-2009 11:37 Oregon Governor Hits the Road for Hunger Awareness Week Chris Thomas for Salem-News.com The number of people requesting emergency food boxes is up about 30 percent in his area.

Dr. Phil Leveque Salem-News.com With over 100 patients a year dying from Methadone and Oxycodone, both prescription drugs, my exalted status as the most dangerous doctor has taken a fall to the bottom.

Palouse Falls and its lower canyon, just before meeting the Snake River, was carved by the ice age floods.

Find great tips and tricks for upgrading your home or improving your lawn and garden in the 2009 News-Review Spring Home & Garden special section.

The Argus Observer in Ontario has announced it will stop publishing Monday newspapers, beginning in April.

ONTARIO, Ore. - Oregon State University researchers say that soybeans are a potentially valuable new crop for the Pacific Northwest, especially in Malheur County in Eastern Oregon.

The Ontario School Board fired a special education teacher who reportedly left a threatening message for a state investigator.

Call Dan Corn corny if you must--he might not mind. Corn, an Ontario-area farmer, topped all other corn-growers in Oregon in the National Corn Growers' contest with a yield of just under 296 bushels per acre, ...

Oregon State Police arrested two Eureka, Calif., residents early Thursday morning at an Ontario area truck stop with about 2 pounds of marijuana and a small amount of hashish.