Vale News

If you travel in the Northwest, sooner or later you're going to come upon portions of the Oregon Trail.

PENDLETON - An Athena police officer charged with sex crimes involving a minor has been moved to a different jail for his protection.

ABOVE: Fields of onions flank the highways between Ontario and Vale, on Oregon's eastern border with Idaho.

Associated Press A April 22, 2009 A VALE, Ore. -- Authorities say a 4-year-old boy was pronounced dead after his mother retrieved him from a pond near their home north of Vale.

Lake Owyhee State Park opened Wednesday while Carl Washburne Memorial State Park will close for a week for road replacement.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management John Day/Snake Resource Advisory Council will meet as indicated below: DATES: The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on April 14, 2009.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is closing an eastern Oregon hot springs on the Owyhee River for two years from sunset to sunrise to protect the site and visitor safety.

VALE, Ore. - An Idaho company is looking at some Oregon hot springs as a possible source of geothermal energy for power generation.

In rural eastern Oregon, the Malheur County Sheriff's Office in Vale brought the rest of the world a little closer with the purchase of a mobile command trailer to allow deputies to communicate with other ...

Oregon Parks and Recreation Department Director Tim Wood has appointed Kendell Phillips of Cave Junction and Lynn Reagan of Vale to the Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries.

A young Vale child suffered minor injuries after he was attacked by a mix-breed dog Saturday as he was playing in an enclosed yard with another youth.

While some rivers on the west side of Oregon and Washington are rising and have started to flood, that does not appear to be an issue for Eastern Oregon and Southwest Idaho.

Oregon Department of Transportation crews are working around the clock to keep local state highways open, and, to date, they have been successful, at least in District 14 which takes in Malheur, Harney and ...

While Ontario officials say the North Oregon improvement project is ready to go, Mayor Joe Dominick said the Idaho Avenue underpass is one venture that will be needed down the road.

It takes weeks to get everything together. The donated food. The money to purchase more food and toys.

The Ontario City Council accepted the resignation of a city councilman and heard an update regarding a potential revamp of the Ontario Train Depot's second story at its meeting Monday night.

Ontario City Manager Henry Lawrence and Ontario Finance Director Rachel Hopper gave budget committee members, revenue committee members and city officials a closer look at a draft of the city's financial ...

The assessment of state court facilities is out, and while the Malheur County court facilities, situated on the second floor of the courthouse building in Vale, are not at the bottom of the list, they do rank ...

To combat an increasing problem with drivers not stopping for school bus stop signs, the Malheur County Sheriff's Office has kicked off a patrol campaign looking for offenders.