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07/19/11 Environmentalists and Portland General Electric have settled a lawsuit over the utility's coal-fired electricity plant in Eastern Oregon.
07/14/11 HEPPNER, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BEO Bancorp (OTCBB:BEOB) and its subsidiary, Bank of Eastern Oregon, announced 2nd quarter 2011 consolidated net income of $325,000 or $0.35 per share, compared to $459,000 or $0.50 per share for 2nd quarter 2010. Year to date earnings were $827,000 in 2011 as compared to $903,000 for the same period in 2010. The relatively comparable earnings were achieved ...
07/12/11 ENTERPRISE Oregon fisheries managers say the large snowpack this spring in Eastern Oregon has made for high water and tough fishing on the Wallowa and Imnaha rivers, so they're raising bag limits for adult hatchery spring chinook salmon. The department says anglers can keep up to four. Biologists at the state Department of Fish and Wildlife estimate 7,000 adult spring chinook will return to the ...
07/12/11 Rev. Douglas Jerome, 71, has dedicated his time to inmates at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution since 1994, and he was recently recognized for his services.
07/09/11 HERMISTON The Umatilla Chemical Depot in Eastern Oregon is expected to finish its work destroying chemical weapons this fall. Now Pendleton local leaders say they fear they may lose influence over what comes next. They want the military's base-closing process to govern reuse of the depot. The alternative is the government's landlord, the General Services Administration. That might upset plans ...
07/08/11 The Umatilla Chemical Depot has been a major economic engine for Eastern Oregon, and that engine is coming into the station. The final project is 3/4 complete and the facility is set to close in November.
07/08/11 Production is down by about 60 percent for cherry growers in Eastern Oregon's Milton-Freewater Valley after an early winter and cold spring. The East Oregonian reports the worst hit trees were those older than 30 years or younger than 4 years old. Some cherry growers lost an entire orchard, while others expect a productive close to the season. Crop consultant Dennis Burks says many of the trees ...
06/23/11 By KDRV Staff June 23, 2011 BLY, Ore. -- A Rogue River woman is dead after a motorcycle-involved crash in Eastern Oregon. The accident happened yesterday afternoon near Bly on Highway 140 East. Police say a 1986 Volkswagen cabriolet two-door convertible driven was attempting to turn left onto deer run road when it was rear-ended by a 2008 Can-Am motorcycle operated by 51-year-old Bonnie Joelle ...
06/16/11 Leo Plass, a man who dropped out of college just shy of graduating in 1932, has earned his degree at the age of 99. KTVZ-TV in Bend, Oregon, has reported that Plass, of Redmond, OR, received his diploma from Eastern Oregon University in La Grande. ...
06/14/11 Two Washington state men and an Oregon woman have been killed in a small plane crash in a rugged mountain area of Eastern Oregon.
06/13/11 Two Washington state men and an Oregon woman have been killed in a small plane crash in a rugged mountain area of Eastern Oregon, authorities said Monday.
06/09/11 The Children's Museum of Eastern Oregon invites all owners of dachshund dogs to bring their poo
06/07/11 A pair of hikers who disappeared during an extreme outdoor competition near Antelope in Eastern Oregon were found safe after a major search effort.
06/07/11 BEND, Ore. (AP) A pair of hikers who disappeared during an extreme outdoor competition near Antelope in Eastern Oregon were found safe after a major search effort. The Bulletin in Bend reports that 23-year-old Ryan Johnstone of Portland and 32-year-old Luis Trybom of Milwaukie, were participating in a GPS geocaching event near Antelope on Saturday. When the pair failed to check in at the event's ...
06/07/11 The pair failed to check in Saturday during a GPS geocaching event near Antelope in Eastern Oregon.
06/07/11 BEND -- A pair of hikers who disappeared during an extreme outdoor competition near Antelope in Eastern Oregon were found safe after a major search effort. The Bulletin in Bend reports that 23-year-old Ryan Johnstone of Portland and 32-year-old Luis Trybom of Milwaukie, were participating in a GPS geocaching event near Antelope on Saturday. When the pair failed to check in at the event's ...
06/06/11 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) A National Weather Service flood watch is in effect in some areas of Eastern Oregon at risk from possibly heavy rain forecast for the region. The weather service said moderate to heavy rain is possible across northeast Oregon on Monday with a flood watch in the Grande Ronde River valley and Wallowa County that includes the cities of Cove, Elgin, La Grande, Enterprise and ...
05/27/11 Rumors that the Eastern Oregon Livestock Show will be canceled this year because of an outbreak of the equine herpes virus in Utah are not true, the EOLS president said this week.
05/26/11 A Wyoming man is facing charges after a traffic stop near Burns in Eastern Oregon resulted in the seizure of 95 pounds of marijuana.
05/26/11 the Columbia was at 16.1 feet at 7 a.m. in Vancouver, where the flood stage is 16 feet. The weather service canceled a flood warning for the Grande Ronde River at Troy and the Imnaha River at Imnaha in Eastern Oregon.
05/19/11 The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests heard testimony this week on a proposal to grant federal wilderness protection to 17,000 acres of high desert near the John Day River in Eastern Oregon. The proposal, part of 60,000 acres being considered for wilderness designation, includes ... | 
