Umatilla News

A 73-year-old Umatilla woman was hurt Monday morning when the pickup she was in rolled on Interstate 82 in Benton County near the Oregon border.

Driving in parts of Eastern Oregon is extremely hazardous this morning, with accidents and icy conditions closing all major highways in Umatilla County.

Students at Clara Brownell Middle School in Umatilla are mourning the loss of a classmate who died Monday in a rollover crash near The Dalles.

A pickup overturned on a remote stretch of Oregon highway, killing a 12-year-old girl and pinning her grandfather underneath the truck.

Linda Jones feels passionately about HB 3508, which passed the Oregon legislature earlier this year.

PENDLETON, Ore. - Umatilla County Sheriff John Trumbo activated the county's major crimes team Monday to help with the search for a Milton-Freewater man missing since Nov.

PENDLETON, Ore. - Searchers have been looking for a 32-year-old Milton-Freewater man last seen near Tiger Canyon in the Umatilla National Forest.

An assistant manager at a Hermiston fast-food joint has been arrested in connection with an early-morning robbery at the restaurant Nov.

A top five list has been drawn up for ways to redevelop the Umatilla Chemical Weapons Depot near Hermiston after its scheduled closure in 2011.

An unidentified worker inspects missiles containing sarin gas in a bunker at the Umatilla Chemical Depot in Hermiston in this undated file photo.

PENDLETON - Preston Bronson, dressed from head to toe in rubber coveralls and a rain jacket, wrestled a 2-foot-long coho salmon from the elevator tank.

Fisheries experts say there's been a big run of coho salmon this year up the Umatilla River in Eastern Oregon.

With the Army on track to destroy the last of the deadly mustard agents at its Umatilla Chemical Depot in 2011 and return the sprawling property to public use, developers from ports to tribes are drawing up plans.

Officials with the Oregon and Washington departments of Fish and Wildlife have set up meetings Thursday and Nov.

Malissa Winthorn speaks with Phil Cash Cash during a lunch break. Cash Cash spoke about his doctoral work as a linguist trying to understand and preserve both the verbal and sign languages he grew up with on the Umatilla Reservation.

Mount Emily soars 3,300 feet above La Grande and the Grande Ronde Valley. Looking for a viewpoint with a precipitous drop to the east and a grassy rim covered with spring and summer wildflowers? Sounds like Steens Mountain in Harney County, right? It could be, but Mount Emily in Union County also fits the bill.

For weeks, officials at the Oregon Department of Education have been issuing ominous warnings to school business managers: Federal stimulus funds are subject to maximum accountability and transparency, and every district must report in detail how it's spent its first three months of stimulus money by 5 p.m. Sept.

A Eugene newspaper once wrote about the Pendleton Round-Up: "People over on the Umatilla have always been willing to take a chance.

McCoy Oatman, a member of the Nez Perce Tribe's executive committee and a tribal fisherman, has been appointed chairman of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission .

On paper, making fuel from plant materials looks like a simple five-step process.