Baker City News

The state Department of Geology and Mineral Industries has shut down its office in Grants Pass and is relocating another in Baker City due to budget cuts.

The following is a press release courtesy of Oregon State Police: Updated information following this morning's release of preliminary statistics now indicates two people died in two separate fatal traffic crashes during the 54-hour Fourth of July holiday reporting period.

He may better known outside his hometown, but now everyone in Baker City can learn about Bruce Klunder.

The Fourth of July weekend was one of the safest on Oregon roadways since 1970, state police said this morning.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon state police say a 57-year-old Baker City man has died in a motorcyle crash.

Roughly 250 ranchers and townspeople raised more than $7,000 for the Baker County Livestock Association's Beef to Schools program at a dinner and auction last week.

Bill Fulton doesn't remember losing his wallet, but getting it back more than 60 years later helped him remember the past.

Indian Ocean search...Iran accused...Madoff lawyer: sentence 'absurd' DZAEUDZI, Comoros A five-year-old has been rescued, but there's no word on other survivors from a passenger jet that crashed into the Indian Ocean today.

Associated Press A June 29, 2009 A BAKER CITY, Ore. -- Bill Fulton doesn't remember losing his wallet, but its return helped him remember the past.

A tip from mushroom pickers led police to what they say is the first major marijuana plantation they have found in the Elkhorn Mountains.

Owners of historic buildings will get tax breaks for another 10 years under a bill that cleared the Legislature this morning.

The crash of a tractor-trailer truck in Eastern Oregon spilled a hazardous chemical along Interstate 84 and closed the highway in both directions for about four hours.

A hazmat spill has shut down a forty mile stretch of Interstate Eighty-Four. The East-Bound lane about ten miles North-West of Baker City, Oregon.

The raft shivered, then nosed down a wall of white water, kicking its haunches high in the air like a rodeo bull.

The annual Hells Canyon Motorcycle Rally brought 5,000 bikers to Baker City last weekend.

Down on the canyon floor, near the tree line's edge, amid the sawdust and scrap, the last mill in Grant County is barely holding on.

Union Pacific says a cracked wheel on a freight car caused a May 29 derailment north of Baker City, according to the Associated Press.

People in about a dozen Yankton homes were told to leave their houses due to a natural gas leak Tuesday evening.

Oregon has been a global leader in measuring its successes and failures. Unfortunately, too few people have been paying attention, especially in state government and the Legislature.

Anglers are reminded to a oeask firsta before entering private lands and to check the 2009 Oregon Sport Fishing Regulations for gear restrictions, legal angling times and other sport fishing regulations.