The Dalles News

Area leaders said Wednesday they will probe options for financing Home at Last Humane Society shelter and try to gather enough data to give credence to a possible tax levy measure on the November ballot.

A new bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley is intended to make it easier for homeowners to pay for energy-saving home renovations and create jobs at the same time.

An Oregon State Police traffic stop Wednesday morning in The Dalles area led to the seizure of more than 5 pounds of methamphetamine and the arrest of two men from California.

It will be a busy ballot for Wasco County voters in the May primary elections this year.

Is there a wind turbine in your personal future? There might be, thanks to The Dalles City Council.

Rescuers help pull a critically-injured driver from his car in a crash on I-84, east of The Dalles.

A judge is expected to rule soon on whether a man accused of killing two neighbors in The Dalles is fit to stand trial.

Oregon elections law guidelines do not allow enough time for Home at Last Humane Society animal shelter to post a special property tax levy measure on the May 18 primary elections ballot, shelter officials said Wednesday.

A new multiuse shipping terminal at the foot of Union Street has cleared a preliminary hurdle in the race for $2 million in federal funding and is about to go to the next level.

A The Dalles youth who prosecutors allege injured his infant son on more than a half dozen occasions was ordered held on $250,000 bail Wednesday at a hearing in the Wasco County Courthouse.

The Wasco County major crimes team is investigating a possible homicide at 1083 Irvine Street Sunday.

Chenowith Elementary gets 30 of the pint-sized stringed instruments, as well as training in how to play By Keri Brenner The Chronicle Ukulele fever spread Monday to Chenowith Elementary School.

A new solar-paneled roof financed by federal energy grant money will grace Wasco County's historic medical building at 425 E. 7th St., The Dalles.

A 17-year-old father in The Dalles has been charged with injuring his 6-week-old son.

A special property tax levy to keep the doors open at Home at Last Humane Society in The Dalles could be on the May 18 primary elections ballot.

About 3,000 Oregon soldiers - including 12 from The Dalles, Hood River and Parkdale - will return from a one-year tour of duty in Iraq in late April or early May, officials said.

Hood River County Veteran Service Officer Brad Houghton stepped down after only 100 days on the job so that another worker could avoid a layoff.

A broken fiber-optic line in Gresham cut off long distance service to between 15,000 and 20,000 CenturyLink customers in The Dalles and Hood River Thursday afternoon and evening.

La Pine resident Tony DeBone filed Wednesday to challenge incumbent Dennis Luke in the May Republican primary for Deschutes County Commissioner.

Members of The Dalles City Council made it official Monday night, voting unanimously to postpone the formation of a proposed Third Street local improvement district for a year.