UEC Raises Over $4,000 to Honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Umatilla Electric Cooperative employees honored Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October with an organization-wide fundraiser benefitting Good Shepherd Community Health Foundation.
Generosity flowed this year...
Oregon 1st State to Make Affordable Health Care a Constitutional Right
By Ben Botkin
Oregon will be the first state in the nation to enshrine the right to affordable health care in its constitution.
Ballot Measure 111...
Hermiston City Council Gets Behind OMA Homelessness Funding Plan
The Hermiston City Council voted unanimously Monday night to support an Oregon Mayors Association plan to seek state funding for communities to address the...
Hermiston Council to Consider Supporting OMA’s Homeless Plan
At its meeting tonight, the Hermiston City Council will consider giving its support to a plan put forward by the Oregon Mayors Association (OMA)...
Commission Rules Out Air Pollution Regulations for State’s Large Dairies
By Alex Baumhardt
Dairies with hundreds of cows won’t face regulations for air pollution for now, the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission decided.
The five governor-appointed commissioners...
Photo Gallery: 2022 Veterans Day Breakfast
A capacity crowd turned out Friday morning for the Veterans Day Breakfast hosted by city of Hermiston and American Legion Post 37. The free event, held...
Umatilla School District Celebrates Passage of School Bond
The Umatilla School District is celebrating the unofficial passage of its General Obligation bond in Tuesday's election.
As of Wednesday, votes received by the county...
E. Oregon Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Sales of Psilocybin
Voters in Eastern Oregon on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to prohibit the sale of psilocybin, otherwise known as magic mushrooms.
Psilocybin is a hallucinogenic chemical obtained...
Roundup of Local Election Results
Incumbent Umatilla County Commissioner John Shafer cruised to re-election Tuesday night and will be joined on the commission by Cindy Timmons who turned back...
New 1,500-Square-Foot Event Center to Be Built in Spring at SAGE Center
The Port of Morrow announced that the SAGE Center in Boardman will be expanding in the first quarter of 2023.
The port announced plans to...
Search and Rescue Team Locate Injured Hunter Near Milton-Freewater
An injured hunter was rescued Thursday by the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue.
On Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 8:30 p.m., the sheriff’s office dispatch center received a call...
Fish & Wildlife Seek Help Regarding Waste of Salmon Near Hood River
The Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife is seeking the public’s help in finding those responsible for the unlawful waste of salmon near Hood...
Lucky Endz Gifts Celebrates 20 Years of Business Success on Main Street
Starting a new business is a leap of faith. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20 percent of new businesses fail during the...
AWS, Hermiston School District Open Think Big Space in Hermiston
Hermiston School District in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) held a ribbon-cutting event recently to celebrate the grand opening of the AWS Think...
Good Shepherd CEO Hightlights Accomplishments of Past Year
Good Shepherd Health Care System President & CEO Brian Sims highlighted the growth and accomplishments of the past year during the hospital’s fifth annual...
The Pandemic’s Impact: Mental Health Field Facing Challenges
The COVID pandemic has made behavioral health and mental wellness a hot topic and put an exclamation point on the need for improved services.
That...
Hermiston FFA Students Return From Successful National FFA Competition
Hermiston FFA students returned to Hermiston on Sunday, after representing Hermiston School District at the FFA National Convention & Expo in Indianapolis, Ind.
The Hermiston...
Hermiston UPS Among Those Fined for Hazardous Waste Violations
By Alex Baumhardt
More than a dozen UPS distribution and transportation centers in Oregon have been fined by the Environmental Protection Agency for violating federal...
Hermiston Mayor Among Those Proposing Funding for Homelessness
By Ben Botkin
More than two dozen Oregon mayors want the state to provide consistent, ongoing money to cities to address the state’s homelessness crisis.
In...
Fire District Crews Put Out Brush Fire
The Umatilla County Fire District #1 was dispatched to brush fire on Echols Road off of Minnehaha Road on Thursday morning.
Upon arrival crews came...
