Hermiston News

Four Whitman College students heading to an environmental convention in Eugene were injured this afternoon when their sport utility vehicle collided with a commercial truck on U.S. 730 near Irrigon, the Oregon State Police reported.

An unidentified worker inspects missiles containing sarin gas in a bunker at the Umatilla Chemical Depot in Hermiston in this undated file photo.

With the Army on track to destroy the last of the deadly mustard agents at its Umatilla Chemical Depot in 2011 and return the sprawling property to public use, developers from ports to tribes are drawing up plans.

CORVALLIS, Ore. A- Although declining streamflows and half-full reservoirs have gotten most of the attention in water conflicts around the United States, some of the worst battles of the next century may be over groundwater, experts say A- a critical resource often taken for granted until it begins to run out.

A fire in a Hermiston school classroom last month sent kids packing to a different school.

Starting with the 2010-11 school year, Central Oregon high schools Redmond, Bend, Mountain View, Summit and Crook County will make up a five-team "hybrid" league.

The historic Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River, Ore., is being bought by Tri-Cities and Eastern Oregon hotel owner Vijay Patel of Kennewick.

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More meth is making its way into Eastern Oregon. First, the number of meth labs dropped when Oregon made stuff like Sudafed tough to get.

Culver resident Floyd Earnest Carlson died Oct. 8, 2009, at the age of 96. Mr. Carlson was born May 15, 1913, the eldest child to Earnest and Augusta Carlson in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Through those naughty saloon doors will swing Jackie Dunlap as Mae West along with sharp-shooter Annie Oakley, portrayed by Jordawn Wambeke, chairwoman of the event.

Two Hermiston men are behind bars for allegedly stealing 11 firearms in a burglary.

Authorities say two men and a woman were rescued from the Columbia River after their fishing boat capsized.

WILSONVILLE, Ore. - Hermiston and Pendleton school officials this week urged the Oregon School Activities Association to drop a proposed reclassification that keeps them in an athletic league with mostly Central Oregon schools.

Irrigation transforms the desert near Hermiston into fertile farmland. A new study suggests that increasingly severe droughts could intensify water conflicts between farmers, conservationists and cities in the Northwest.

Nearly 50 people are searching the Columbia River by boat, by air and along the shoreline today for two fishermen missing after their boat capsized.

The Coast Guard says Morrow County sheriff's divers are resuming the search Tuesday morning for two men missing in the Columbia River after their boat sank near Hermiston.

Oregon school districts have been slow to apply for some $113 million in no-interest bonds that are available thanks to the federal stimulus package.

Complaints about a backyard marijuana grow led Hermiston police to a home where 16 pot plants were seized and two children were removed by Child Protection Service, authorities said.

Police are looking for a missing person, Lloyd Marcum, who was last seen in the Tri-Cities. Marcum has not been seen since possibly Friday.