Baker County News

DURKEE, Ore. - At the Hungry Redneck Cafe, one of two businesses left in Durkee, Bozcho "Bo" Lettunich has seen his sales drop more than 30 percent since officials at the nearby Ash Grove Cement plant announced plans to lay off 68 of the factory's 116 workers in mid-December. "I have fewer customers coming in from Ash Grove.

Pam Neske, 13, was thrilled to win Huckleberry, a colt, in a drawing Wednesday. Her family will pay Baker County $175 for the horse, who had been abandoned in the Blue Mountains.

KIVI Today's Channel 6 News 1 Dead, 15 injured in Oregon van rollover Oregon State Police troopers, with help from the Baker County Sheriff's Office and emergency responders, are continuing the investigation into an early Thursday morning single-vehicle rollover crash on Interstate 84 in the Baker City area that killed one person and injured 15 ...

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Police arrested a 24-year-old man wanted for an Oct. 22 shooting in Baker City. District Attorney Matt Shirtcliff of Baker County says investigators traveled to Portland to arrest Zachary Persicke on a charge of first-degree assault.

Authorities have identified a suspect in the shooting of a 46-year-old man at a Baker City home last week.

Former Unity city recorder Cherry Lee Dickson has started serving a 90-day jail sentence for forging checks and using a city debit card for personal benefit.

SUMPTER, Ore. - The body of a Portland man missing since August has been found in Baker County.

BAKER CITY, Ore. - The Baker County Planning Commission has turned down a proposed "dark sky" ordinance.

Eastern Oregon ranchers are considering a mobile slaughtering plant in Baker County to process beef that's now hauled out of state.

A vexing problem faced by electric utilities is that people use more electricity in the morning and evening than they do at noon or at night, and even more during hot spells and cold snaps.

The Ash Grove Cement Co. is shutting down production at it's Durkee plant south of Baker City along Interstate 84, idling 68 workers, because of the continued slowdown in construction nationwide.

It's remarkable how fast views have hardened about the Ash Grove Cement plant in Durkee, a small town in Oregon's Baker County.

The owners of this cement plant in Durkee are hoping to amend proposed federal rules that will limit mercury emissions.

Oregon health officials have issued a public health advisory about new cases of West Nile virus.

The Burnt River Watershed Enhancement Project is receiving $864,900 to help farmers and ranchers upgrade their irrigation systems and leave more water in the Burnt River to improve fish habitat.

BAKER CITY, Ore. - A U.S. Forest Service employee is dead after being struck by a falling tree as he helped clean up a marijuana growing operation in eastern Oregon.

Authorities in Baker County are looking for a Beaverton man who hasn't been seen since Aug.

The accidental death of a U.S. Forest Service worker last week in the Monument Rock Wilderness underscores the seriousness of an unusually active marijuana-growing season across Oregon this summer.

A U.S. Forest Service employee died Thursday while working in Eastern Oregon, but the circumstances are not yet clear.