Spring Chinook Season on Lower Columbia Re-Opens

Spring Chinook fishing on the lower Columbia River will re-open this weekend. The Columbia River from Tongue Point/Rocky Point line upstream to Beacon Rock (boat...

Urban Renewal Agency to Hold Budget Meeting

The Hermiston Urban Renewal Agency’s budget committee will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. on May 13 at Hermiston City Hall. The committee will...

Senior Lunches Served at Umatilla Center on Fridays

The Umatilla School District is offering lunches for senior citizens each Friday at the Umatilla Center. Lunches will be served from noon to 1 p.m....

Clara Brownell Student Council Receives Honor

Clara Brownell Middle School in Umatilla is one of nine middle schools and eight high schools receiving recognition as a high achieving student council. The...

Fair Names Day Camp Logo Winner

Fourth grader Emily Smith of Rocky Heights Elementary School in Hermiston has won Umatilla County’s Fun at the Fair Day Camp logo contest. Fair officials...

Hermiston Approves Engineering Contract

The city of Hermiston approved a contract with Anderson Perry & Associates to provide engineering services for the city. The city had been employing the...

Annexation Clears Way for New Subdivision

The Hermiston City Council voted Monday night to annex two acres of land near S.W. 10th Street that paves the way for a single-family...

Chamber to Host Stetsons' Grand Opening

The Hermiston Chamber of Commerce will host a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for Stetsons Steak House on Friday, May 1. The event will take...

Wyden Demands Hanford Investigation

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., demanded an investigation into the contracting practices at the Department of Energy’s Hanford nuclear site in Washington State and...
Student Built Home

Student-Built Home to Go Up for Sale June 2

The Hermiston School Board unanimously approved the sale of Fieldstone #1, the first of 11 student-built homes located on West Angus Ave. Deputy Superintendent Wade...
Junk Cleanup

Residents Turn in More Than 60 Tons of Junk

The Hermiston area is a lot cleaner this week after Saturday’s “Hermiston Clean Sweep” event hauled away more than 60 tons of hard to...

Chamber's Alive After 5 Set for Thursday

The Hermiston Chamber of Commerce will host an Alive After 5 event at Sheer Illusions, 611 E. Highland Ave., on Thursday, April 30. The event...

FFA Plant Sale Set for May 8-9

The Hermiston High School FFA Plant Sale will be Friday, May 8, from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Saturday, May 9, from 9...
HCC 4-27-15

Ordinance Aims to Address Dogs Running at Large

According to city records, there are officially 103 dogs in Hermiston. OK, there’s certainly a lot more than that, but in 2014, the city issued...
Senior Center Site

Council Selects Site for New Senior Center

New Building Will Be Called the Harkenrider Center The city of Hermiston already had the money, now it has a site and name for the...

OSP Investigating Fatal Accident on Interstate 84

Oregon State Police troopers from the Pendleton Area Command are continuing the investigation into a fatal traffic crash that occurred early Sunday morning. On Sunday,...

Inland NW Orchestra to Give Free Concert

The Inland Northwest Orchestra will perform with three of four young artists that won this year’s Young Artist Competition on Saturday, May 2 in...

ODFW to Treat Area Trout Fisheries

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will host a series of public meetings in early May to discuss plans to treat several water...

ODFW to Truck Umatilla Spring Chinook Upriver

With water levels in the Umatilla River already reaching summer lows, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today it will begin transporting...

School District's Credit Rating Pays Off for Taxpayers

The Hermiston School District’s recently reaffirmed outstanding AA- (double A minus) credit rating from Standard and Poor’s Corporation paid big dividends during yesterday’s refinancing...