Baker City News

Published: Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 9:37 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 9:46 a.m. In 1999, when he started his online business at theUFOstore.com, Randy Haragan wanted to become "the ...

The second week of the CRC's Sea to Sea bike tour is in the books. The second leg of the journey took the bikers from Kennewick to Boise, a total distance of 321 miles.

On a boy scout camping trip to Alvord Desert, Scott Davies powers his scooter over the desert floor with Steens Mountain in the background.

Faced with an alarming infestation of grasshoppers that have started to move from rangeland into crop fields, farmers in northern Baker County put $46,000 into a kitty for aerial spraying of a pesticide.

The Baker City Council plans to take another look at its policy on prayer at council meetings.

Kent Couch is at it again. While the rest of the country is sleeping off Fourth of July revels on Saturday, he and a host of volunteers will be up before the sun at his gas station in Bend, Ore.

This is not as strange as it seems. Growing hops in Eastern Oregon. And with a worldwide shortage of the beer flavoring, it may pencil out.

Above, the high speed Goldrush Criterium was held Saturday through downtown Baker City.

The Journey Through Time Scenic Byway stretches 286 miles through north central to eastern Oregon.

The Journey Through Time Scenic Byway stretches 286 miles through north central to eastern Oregon.

Oregon's once-massive sheep and wool industry is gone, but vestiges remain in back-yard operations like Suzen Fors, who got started raising a few 25 years ago when her daughter raised lambs as a 4H project.

Chrome glittered and the low rumble of Harleys and Hondas reverberated through the streets of Baker City last weekend as leather clad motorcycle enthusiasts gathered for the annual Hells Canyon Motorcycle ...

Yamhill County has hired a Marion County parole and probation administrator to take the reins from Richard Sly when the long-time corrections chief retires at the end of the month.

The Oregon State Penitentiary was built in Portland in 1851 and relocated to Salem in 1866, where it remained the state's only major prison for 100 years.

From Summer Days and Cowboy Horsepower to a Vine-Ripened Tomato and Filet of Fish, the artist's renditions in the Art About Agriculture exhibit portray various aspects of farm life and our natural resources.

Pro-union Gov. gets pro-business test Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has been invited to referee a raging Oregon agricultural labor dispute, forcing a dramatic leadership test on the two-term Democrat.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will release about 300 spring chinook salmon into the Powder River in Baker City.

Now his chair and camera have been recovered and the footage is pulled. "It's kind of a fun story to tell and I think that the footage is going to show people what I felt like and what I saw from there," Couch ...

BAKER CITY - Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has intervened in a labor dispute at three Pacific Northwest feedlots that has put the future of some Oregon ranchers in jeopardy.

Posted by The Associated Press May 30, 2008 05:38AM The state agency that licenses Oregon teachers has accused three Union-Baker Education Service District employees of misconduct, according to this story from ...