Pendleton News

PENDLETON - Preston Bronson, dressed from head to toe in rubber coveralls and a rain jacket, wrestled a 2-foot-long coho salmon from the elevator tank.

PENDLETON, Ore. a ' Schiemer Farms of Nyssa, Ore., will pay $14,500 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , the agency announced today.

Associated Press A November 2, 2009 A PENDLETON, Ore. -- Fisheries experts say there's been a big run of coho salmon this year up the Umatilla River in Eastern Oregon.

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.

Aquifers are being depleted much faster than they are being replenished in many places, wells are drying up, massive lawsuits are already erupting and the problems have barely begun.

PENDLETON, Ore. - A nonprofit organization that hopes to build a homeless assistance complex in Pendleton has sent out at least $30,000 in bad checks, and police are investigating whether it's fraud or an honest mistake.

Salem-News.com - October 27, 2009 - 5:13 am Oct-27-2009 00:30 Double Fatal Traffic Crash - Interstate 84 West of Pendleton Salem-News.com OSP troopers from the Pendleton Area Command office are attempting to determine the cause of the crash.

PENDLETON, Ore. - An Eastern Oregon man is suing one of North America's largest fertilizer producers because of an anhydrous ammonia leak in 2007.

Haven't yet made time to winter-proof your home? You better get started because it's going to get cold.

PENDLETON, Ore. - Public health officials in Umatilla County say the swine flu is "highly suspected" in the weekend deaths a child and a middle-age adult.

Police in Oregon credit a local man for helping reunite an Idaho toddler with his mother.

A Lewiston man is in prison, and his child safe Thursday after a three day search for 2-year-old Colin Matthew Remacle.

Police say they have apprehended a Lewiston man accused of taking his 2-year-old son without permission.

The search is on for 2-year-old Colin Matthew Remacle, who was reported missing this week, and is believed to be with his father, 39-year-old Charles Remacle, whose whereabouts are unknown.

It has to do with our latitude, and it's amplified by our dry High Desert air One day it's like this The next it's like this Power restored Sunday's storm knocked out power to about 8,500 Pacific Power customers in Bend, but by Monday evening, just three customers were without power, said Art Sasse, a spokesman for the company.

When I was in high school, the mother of a friend of mine had a Pendleton wool coat from the 1960s that I admired so much, I've not been able to forget about it in the last almost 20 years.

Mount Emily soars 3,300 feet above La Grande and the Grande Ronde Valley. Looking for a viewpoint with a precipitous drop to the east and a grassy rim covered with spring and summer wildflowers? Sounds like Steens Mountain in Harney County, right? It could be, but Mount Emily in Union County also fits the bill.

Motorists traveling over the mountain passes may run into light snow today and tonight, according to weather forecasters.

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.

PENDLETON, Ore. - A judge has reduced bail for a Milton-Freewater man accused of sexually abusing a young boy.