Malheur County News

A Umatilla County grand jury has indicted an Athena police officer on sex charges involving a 15-year-old girl, according to the Oregon Department of Justice.

An Eastern Oregon woman has died after after her car went off the road and rolled several times, state police said this morning.

The road into Harney County's largest city rides like butter, an asphalt welcome mat unfurling for miles across a vast desert.

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

An Oregon State Police trooper arrested a Boise man accused of racing and driving the wrong direction on Interstate 84.

Oregon State Police responded to a single vehicle fatal accident on between Burns and Burns Junction in rural southeastern Oregon Monday.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture has fined five Malheur County onion growers for misusing pesticides not labeled for use on their crops.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture has fined five Malheur County onion growers a total of $180,000 for pesticide violations.

A Nyssa School District instructional assistant is in jail, charged with two counts of sexual abuse with a high school student.

Salem-News.com - April 27, 2009 - 4:13 pm Apr-27-2009 11:37 Oregon Governor Hits the Road for Hunger Awareness Week Chris Thomas for Salem-News.com The number of people requesting emergency food boxes is up about 30 percent in his area.

Authorities say they're responding to the Idaho/Oregon border after a construction crane apparently crashed on a bridge under construction.

Because the state uses an annual survey of construction firms to determine its prevailing wage rates, the rates are accurate only if the surveys produce good data.

Oregon Humane Society staff member Lori Kirby and volunteer Joe Cereghino introduce a rescued dog to his new bunk mate tonight in Northeast Portland.

The Polk County deputy district attorneys who were fired by newly elected District Attorney Stan Butterfield can have their jobs back.

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

BAKER CITY - The Republican leader of the Oregon Senate has introduced a bill he says is designed to get an Idaho utility company to move the proposed route of a high-voltage line off Eastern Oregon farmland.

The Malheur County Sheriff's Office brought the rest of the world a little closer with the purchase of a mobile command trailer, which will allow deputies to communicate with other agencies in emergencies.

An unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest and girls of Lincoln Bench School study their reading lesson in photos taken by Dorothea Lange in 1939 in Malheur County.

Oregon State University researchers say that soybeans are a potentially valuable new crop for the Pacific Northwest, especially in Malheur County in Eastern Oregon.

Mike Downing and the hunter on his left had just stood up in their pit blind to take a pair of Canada geese that flared in their direction.