Baker County News Archives

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.

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

A U.S. Forest Service employee died accidentally today while helping to remove a marijuana garden south of Unity in eastern Oregon, the Forest Service reported.

Three babies, ages six months, four months and almost three months, have died in Baker County since May 21.

Movie critics are always encouraging audiences to catch short films by local artists, but there's a built-in problem with such exhortations: namely, where to see 'em. Most shorts play in festivals or in anthologies of short films that might show once or twice total on a single screen.

This is an editorial from the Aug. 7 Baker City Herald on co-sleeping: Three babies, ages six months, four months and almost three months, have died in Baker County since May 21.

An Oregon man accused of a triple killing has refused to be represented by an attorney.

The U.S. Forest Service and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife released 18 Rocky Mountain goats in the Umatilla National Forest last month as part of an effort to establish a population there.

An Oregon man accused of a triple killing has refused to be represented by an attorney.

Yogee's owners Toby Faas, 44, and Robert Faas, 58, take a break outside the bar while Yogee's kitchen manager Gene Gosda, 39, has a cigarette.

The 80.4-ounce Armstrong gold nugget, inside a display case for public view at the U.S. Bank in Baker City.