Gilliam County News

While the number of people without jobs in Douglas County dropped slightly in May, the picture remains much bleaker when compared to a year earlier.

Until he died at 85 and received a tribute from President Barack Obama, Jim Norene was better known in isolated Heppner as "Doc," the only veterinarian for miles.

Wasco Sherman Public Health Department will expand July 1 to include Gilliam County, according to an announcement from Teri Thalhofer, department director.

Jim Weed took his position as administrator of the regional jail with full knowledge of past problems and equal confidence about the future.

Set amid wheeling seagulls that have found paradise 250 miles from the ocean, hydraulic tippers hoist truck containers and send thousands of pounds of Portland's garbage sliding into a never-ending pile.

Wind turbines may supply power without pollution but they are also generating complaints about noise and even possible health effects for people who live near them.

More than a dozen Oregon counties had jobless figures in February that were well above the state's 10.8 percent unemployment rate, according to the Oregon Employment Department.

Jariabka joined Westlake in 2002 as a civil designer and was promoted to project manager after receiving her Oregon professional engineer certification in 2008.

Ten months earlier than it had planned, Walsh Trucking Co. of Troutdale will take over the job of hauling the Portland area's garbage to a landfill in Eastern Oregon.

A Gresham man was sentenced last week in Gilliam County Circuit Court after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of wasting a bighorn ram.

Metro has agreed to end prematurely its 20-year contract with CSU Transport Inc., as the truck company seeks to sell its assets and cease its trucking operations.

Senator Ron Wyden will hold his 500th town meeting in Fossil Tuesday, Feb. 17. Number 499 will be held that morning in Gilliam County; number 501 later that afternoon in Sherman County.

A Gresham man who legally killed a bighorn ram will lose his hunting privileges for two years for leaving the carcass of the animal to rot near the John Day River.

Metro, Portland's regional government, will terminate a 20-year waste hauling contract with a group that's selling its assets and ending its trucking operations.

The northern Oregon landscape dries out in the rain shadow east of the Cascades, but several large rivers and their side streams attract outdoor adventurers to the quiet playgrounds of central and eastern ...

Gilliam County Sheriff's deputies arrested a former Arlington School District deputy clerk on accusations of theft, forgery and official misconduct.