Enterprise News

Sisters has had its enterprise zone for just four days, but the city has already heard from businesses interested in moving to town.

A view from the Lostine River area. The Lostine River Run on the 4th of July offers runners and walkers 10k, 5k, and 1 mile options.

June 15, 2009 The grants will fund services that benefit law enforcement, prosecution and courts from Astoria to Enterprise Attorney General John Kroger announced today that he is awarding more than $800,000 in grants the Department of Justice received from the U.S. government to organizations around Oregon that work to protect women from violence.

Part of a short-line railroad in Oregon's ruggedly beautiful Wallowa County has become a 30-mile-long parking lot for about 700 idled railcars, some blighted with graffiti.

While Congress is still circulating numerous, half-baked ideas on health care reform, the most progressive proposal still standing, a public option, has the support of a key stakeholder group as represented by Doctors for America.

The market for the macabre grows even more bizarre. T-Enterprise , a British video game company, is developing a game set in a nice, coastal location.

NOTICE OF BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING A public meeting of the Budget Committee for the Union County Solid Waste District, State of Oregon, to discuss the budget for the fiscal year July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010 will be held at the Joseph Annex Conference Room, 1106 K Avenue, La Grande.

Former Douglas County Commissioner Marilyn Kittelman was cleared of a charge of Interfering with a Police Officer, by a Douglas County Circuit Court judge Wednesday afternoon.

A new solar products manufacturer based in Enterprise has opened a plant in La Grande.

For a little over a year, Jackie Harmon, 32, of Eugene, has handled phone calls as a customer service agent for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. For the past three months, she has been doing that in the comfort of her own home.

Aberystwyth, screens Fast and Furious until Thursday 7 May : O'Conner teams up with Toretto to bring down a heroin importer.Star Trek shows from Friday 8 to Thursday 21 : Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto star in this prequel chronicling the early days of James T Kirk and the crew of USS Enterprise.

The Oregon Sesquicentennial Film Festival, put on by Marylhurst University, began on May 1st with a nice talk between Gus Van Sant and James Ivory at McMenamins Mission Theater in NW Downtown Portland.

Here is the AP Oregon Enterprise Digest for this week. Please also refer to national digests for other enterprise.

A youth group outing ended tragically Tuesday on a remote northeastern Oregon road near Hells Canyon when a pickup plunged over a 350-foot embankment, killing the driver and injuring at least six others, most and possibly all of them teens.

A private plane reportedly owned by an Enterprise, Oregon outfit has crashed in Butte, Montana, killing 17 people, including children.

A small plane that departed Oroville Sunday morning crashed as it approached an airport in Montana, killing 14 to 17 people, including several children, authorities said.

Shelly Halma, left, owner of Pet Pantry, discusses an aquarium product with Tonya Breaum as they help customers near the end of a recent work day.

A small plane crashed Sunday as it approached an airport in Montana, killing 17 people, including several children, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said.

Wallowa Lake in northest Oregon is the site of a new state park, Iwetemlaykin State Heritage Site.

One skier died and two others were rescued after all three were caught in an avalanche in the Wallowa mountains in Eastern Oregon.