Baker County News

Police arrested a 24-year-old man wanted for an Oct. 22 shooting in Baker City. District Attorney Matt Shirtcliff of Baker County says investigators traveled to Portland to arrest Zachary Persicke on a charge of first-degree assault.

Authorities have identified a suspect in the shooting of a 46-year-old man at a Baker City home last week.

Former Unity city recorder Cherry Lee Dickson has started serving a 90-day jail sentence for forging checks and using a city debit card for personal benefit.

SUMPTER, Ore. - The body of a Portland man missing since August has been found in Baker County.

BAKER CITY, Ore. - The Baker County Planning Commission has turned down a proposed "dark sky" ordinance.

Eastern Oregon ranchers are considering a mobile slaughtering plant in Baker County to process beef that's now hauled out of state.

A vexing problem faced by electric utilities is that people use more electricity in the morning and evening than they do at noon or at night, and even more during hot spells and cold snaps.

The Ash Grove Cement Co. is shutting down production at it's Durkee plant south of Baker City along Interstate 84, idling 68 workers, because of the continued slowdown in construction nationwide.

It's remarkable how fast views have hardened about the Ash Grove Cement plant in Durkee, a small town in Oregon's Baker County.

The owners of this cement plant in Durkee are hoping to amend proposed federal rules that will limit mercury emissions.

Oregon health officials have issued a public health advisory about new cases of West Nile virus.

The Burnt River Watershed Enhancement Project is receiving $864,900 to help farmers and ranchers upgrade their irrigation systems and leave more water in the Burnt River to improve fish habitat.

BAKER CITY, Ore. - A U.S. Forest Service employee is dead after being struck by a falling tree as he helped clean up a marijuana growing operation in eastern Oregon.

Authorities in Baker County are looking for a Beaverton man who hasn't been seen since Aug.

The accidental death of a U.S. Forest Service worker last week in the Monument Rock Wilderness underscores the seriousness of an unusually active marijuana-growing season across Oregon this summer.

A U.S. Forest Service employee died Thursday while working in Eastern Oregon, but the circumstances are not yet clear.

The owners of this cement plant in Durkee are hoping to amend proposed federal rules that will limit mercury emissions.

A U.S. Forest Service employee died accidentally today while helping to remove a marijuana garden south of Unity in eastern Oregon, the Forest Service reported.

Three babies, ages six months, four months and almost three months, have died in Baker County since May 21.

Movie critics are always encouraging audiences to catch short films by local artists, but there's a built-in problem with such exhortations: namely, where to see 'em. Most shorts play in festivals or in anthologies of short films that might show once or twice total on a single screen.