Umatilla News

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

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.

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.

Officials with the Oregon and Washington departments of Fish and Wildlife have set up meetings Thursday and Nov.

Malissa Winthorn speaks with Phil Cash Cash during a lunch break. Cash Cash spoke about his doctoral work as a linguist trying to understand and preserve both the verbal and sign languages he grew up with on the Umatilla Reservation.

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.

For weeks, officials at the Oregon Department of Education have been issuing ominous warnings to school business managers: Federal stimulus funds are subject to maximum accountability and transparency, and every district must report in detail how it's spent its first three months of stimulus money by 5 p.m. Sept.

A Eugene newspaper once wrote about the Pendleton Round-Up: "People over on the Umatilla have always been willing to take a chance.

McCoy Oatman, a member of the Nez Perce Tribe's executive committee and a tribal fisherman, has been appointed chairman of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission .

On paper, making fuel from plant materials looks like a simple five-step process.

HERMISTON, Ore. - Picture Lewis and Clark splitting up at some point between present-day Umatilla and Boardman and racing to the Pacific Ocean.

Firefighters are hoping cooler, damper weather today will help them gain ground on the Microwave Fire, burning eastward toward Mosier on 1,000 acres.

Joe Bass , a member of the Yakama tribe, filets a 6-pound steelhead for David Azari, who drove out from Portland to Cascade Locks to buy some fresh fish in August 2007.

When rival street gangs showed up at a Pendleton Round-Up dance looking for a fight, Umatilla County Sheriff John Trumbo let them come in but told them to "get rid of the gang colors and turn your hats around." They did, but tempers soon flared.

Aren't fire lookouts cute? This one is atop Indian Rock in the Malheur National Forest.

A fisherman turned out to be the catch of the day for law enforcement. Morrow County authorities had been looking for 30-year-old Edward Pergande since he failed to show for a pretrial hearing in January.

Willy the woolly mammoth , a fixture in Fossil. Caty Clifton of Athena, a small farm town north of Pendleton, was randomly selected as the winner of a central Oregon getaway in the "Send Terry on the Road" contest.

A Umatilla fisherman turned out to be the catch of the day. Morrow County authorities had been looking for 30-year-old Edward Pergande since he failed to show for a pretrial hearing in January.

One of the most scenic federal highways in the West, in my opinion, is U.S. 395.