Baker City News

Where is your stimulus money going? In Baker City, Ore., the Bureau of Land Management is putting $256,000 of it toward "rattlesnake stewardship." It's the latest addition to our Stimulus Jobs Map .

Three of the people injured in last week's van crash near Baker City remain hospitalized in Boise.

An attendee at the New Life Worship Center of Federal Heights holds a candle in the air during a vigil held on Thursday, Nov.

Hundreds of members of New Life Worship Center gathered Sunday to remember the victims of a deadly church van crash, and to honor the survivors.

First-grader Nessa Copley flaps her wings as she becomes part of the storytelling Friday at Brooklyn Primary School.

The Eastern Oregon city of Halfway managed to avoid a crisis after a gas explosion blew out the town's main water pumping station.

Five young people remain in serious or critical condition at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise following a rollover accident near Baker City on Thursday that killed two people.

Oregon State Police troopers, with the assistance of local police and emergency responders, are continuing the investigation into an early Thursday morning single vehicle rollover crash on Interstate 84 about five miles west of Baker City that resulted in the death of one person and injuries to 15 others.

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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A news release at 10 a.m. Monday advised that two crashes on I-84 in Eastern Oregon have shut down the eastbound highway at mile point 216, six miles east of Pendleton.

During the American Hereford Association Annual Membership Meeting Nov. 2 new AHA officers were announced and three new directors were elected to serve on the AHA Board.

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.

BAKER CITY, Ore. - A Baker City man has asked the Oregon Elections Division to investigate whether former City Manager Steve Brocato and a current city employee violated state law by twice signing petitions in the City Council recall campaign.

BAKER CITY, Ore. - Joseph Kehoe shrugs off his jacket to reveal a black T-shirt emblazoned with a lime green ox and wagon and the words "You have died of dysentery." His says this design, inspired by the 1970s computer game "Oregon Trail," lends a mood to his presentation of adventures and scary stories.

Committee collects six times more money than the group promoting the recall of Mayor Dennis Dorrah and City Councilor Beverly Calder A committee that supports Baker City Mayor Dennis Dorrah and Councilor Beverly Calder has raised six times more money than the group that urges voters to remove the pair from office through a recall.

The body of a Portland man missing since August has been found in Baker County. Undersheriff Warren Thompson says three hunters brought a cooler to the sheriff's office Friday afternoon.

When President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February, he challenged states to implement the economic stimulus package with an "unprecedented level of public transparency and accountability." In Oregon, we took that challenge very seriously.

Baker City, OR . On Friday, October 2 at 8:00 a.m., the Deer Creek Road up Big Canyon, Forest Road 8270, will open for public access to the Cougar Ridge Trailhead.