Firefighters have almost fully contained a blaze on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon that burned over 8,000 acres in the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area.
Roads and trails near a wildfire that has burned almost 8,000 acres on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon are closed, and fire bosses encourage hunters in the wilderness south of the fire to clear out.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will release about 200 spring Chinook salmon into the Powder River after getting the signoff from fisheries downstream.
Wallowa County, population 7,008, is so remote, mountainous and sparsely settled that cows and horses outnumber people. The fairgrounds runs on a tight budget - and it's getting tighter.
The family of a Canadian couple last seen March 19 buying gas in Baker City en route to Las Vegas thanked the people and police of the town and Eastern Oregon for treating the missing couple "like they were part of the Baker City family."
Facing a Sierra Club lawsuit and heightened federal scrutiny of its Boardman coal-fired generating plant, Portland General Electric has drafted a much firmer proposal to close Oregon's only coal plant by Dec. 31, 2020, at least 20 years earlier than anticipated.