Wallowa News

Portland's Art in the Pearl is one pearl of an art show it seems. Just ask Kimberly Morris of Wallowa, Oregon.

Gwen Trice unearthed the little-known story of the Maxville loggers, a group of African Americans from the South who worked in northeast Oregon in the 1920s, for her documentary "The Logger's Daughter," shown recently on Oregon Public Broadcasting's "Oregon Experience." WALLOWA -- Everybody knows loggers shout "Timber!" But African American ...

A tip from mushroom pickers led police to what they say is the first major marijuana plantation they have found in the Elkhorn Mountains.

Oregon's State Advisory Committee on Historic Preservation will consider nominations to the National Register of Historic Places during a one-day meeting Friday at the North Mall Office Building, 725 Summer St.

The raft shivered, then nosed down a wall of white water, kicking its haunches high in the air like a rodeo bull.

Hundreds of rail cars called ''crossbeams,'' designed for hauling lumber, are parked on the tracks of a northeastern Oregon shortline railroad between Joseph and the Eagle Cap Wilderness trailhead at Hurricane Creek.

Part of a short-line railroad in Oregon's ruggedly beautiful Wallowa County has become a 30-mile-long parking lot for about 700 idled railcars, some blighted with graffiti.

An Oregon State Police officer who shot an armed man suspected of public indecency was justified in using deadly force, a grand jury hearing evidence in the case has found.

Julie Ann Feigleson and Susan Salkield have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Lois D. Griggs, Deceased, Probate No.

Officials with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation have made grants adding up to more than $200,000 to 19 Oregon counties for conservation and education projects.

Oregon State Police say a trooper fatally shot a man in the northeast Oregon town of Wallow after the man pulled a handgun while being taken into custody.

An Oregon State Police trooper shot and killed a man Thursday night who police say produced a gun during an arrest in Wallowa, according to state police officials.

The OAC has worked with Oregon citizens to come up with a "creative bill of rights" for Oregon students, and they asked me to compose an introductory declaration.

Tucked away in the Northeast corner of Oregon is picturesque Wallowa Valley. Overflowing with 53 lakes and 3,100 streams, it's no surprise that Wallowa County's Indian name is "Land of the Winding Waters." And the surrounding snow-capped Wallowa Mountains make it equally easy to see why it's also dubbed the "Little Switzerland of America." But no ...

State health officials have identified six more probable cases of swine flu, increasing the number of Oregonians likely hit with the illness to 11.

SALEM, Ore. - State health officials say the number of probable cases of swine flu in Oregon has risen to five.

Eating It Up In Eden The Oregon Century Farm & Ranch Cookbook By Richard Engeman White House Grocery Press Paperback $18.95 This must be the year of the cookbook.

A great gray owl sits on a nest box, unworried by onlookers below. The magnificent bird was exactly where biologists from the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest said it would be.

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.

PORTLAND, Ore. - You've probably driven past a rural farm at some point and seen some llamas but have you ever had the opportunity to see one up close and personal? Well now's your chance! Nigel the friendly ...