Umatilla News

A new principal has taken the helm at East Valley High School. Dorthea "Dottie" Say of Umatilla, Ore., starts work this month, heading up the ninth- through 12th-grade school.

Irrigation has transformed desert near Hermiston into farmland, one way that water resources play a crucial role in Oregon.

With Oregon's Legislature drawing to a close, Oregon environmental groups gained ground on some of their remaining top priorities over the weekend, including bills designed to attack invasive species, limit coal power and provide loans for energy efficiency improvements in homes and small businesses.

After nearly an hour of floor debate, the House this afternoon approved a bill that would provide state loans and grants to foster water development projects in Oregon.

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After more than 45 years, the days of the Umatilla Chemical Depot are numbered. The depot is preparing to incinerate its hefty supply of mustard gas, the last chemical weapon stored there.

Oregon State Police arrested the driver of a van involved in a fatal crash Friday morning on Interstate 82 just north of the Powerline Road exit near Umatilla.

HERMISTON - Workers at the Umatilla Chemical Depot have begun the process to incinerate the last of the chemical weapons stored there.

If this recession has taught us anything, it's that we're all connected. When it comes to Oregon's delicate water resources, problems facing country mouse also impact city mouse.

From left, Umatilla High School students Becky Blackmore, Jennifer Thomas and Brandy Wines put stickers on beer warning shoppers not to purchase alcohol for underage drinkers at the Umatilla Kangaroo Express on Saturday, May 16, 2009.

Crawl Space's openings are great parties, and Buddy Bunting's great big, stark portraits of remote places - like his minimalist drawing of the Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, Oregon, installed on a 32-foot wall built for this show, which is archly titled High Living - are lonely as hell .

Representatives of Columbia River tribes say Oregon and Washington have allowed too much nontribal fishing of upper Columbia spring chinook at the probable expense of tribes depending on what may be an unexpectedly low run.

A confirmed case of swine flu has popped up in our region. Umatilla County now has one definite case and one probable case.

Representatives of Columbia River tribes say Oregon and Washington have allowed too much nontribal fishing of upper Columbia spring chinook at the probable expense of tribes depending on what may be an unexpectedly low run.

Babtist "Paul" Lumley is the new director of the Portland-based tribal fishing commission.

Steve Eldrige wasn't impressed by the science and politics that put the Columbia River off limits to his farming customers.

A move is afoot to restrict windmills in the foothills of the Blue Mountains in Umatilla County.

A new way for people living in Hermiston to travel to the Tri-Cities is coming soon.

The loss of a Fleetwood Travel Trailers of Oregon plant and its 253 jobs is bringing both pain and optimism to this eastern Oregon rodeo and wheat town.

The Northeast Oregon Regional Youth Center in Pendleton will close June 30 because of nearly $1.1 million in budget cuts in the proposed 2009-2010 Umatilla County budget.