LA GRANDE — Training & Employment Consortium is offering free interactive Excel classes in November. The classes will be held online and include hands-on exercises.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — People putting their "I Voted" stickers on women's suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony's headstone will see something new this year: a plastic cover.
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SALEM — With Halloween a week away, it’s not hard to find gravestones adorning local lawns. But Amy Vandegrift’s yard is more memorial than festive adornment.
VALE — Four classes at Vale Elementary School have been suspended because four staff and one student have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, according to Alisha McBride, Vale School District…
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LA GRANDE — The annual Nov. 11 La Grande Veterans Day Parade has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
LOS ANGELES — A fast-moving wildfire forced evacuation orders for 70,000 people in Southern California on Monday, Oct. 26, as powerful winds across the state prompted power to be cut to hundre…
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BAKER CITY — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced a reward of $6,150 is being offered for information leading to an arrest in the fatal shooting of a gray wolf in eastern Baker…
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PARIS — A French doctor warned Monday, Oct. 26, that his country has “lost control of the epidemic,” a day after health authorities reported more than 52,000 new coronavirus cases as nations a…
LA GRANDE — The La Grande School District’s school resource officer program is set for the 2020-21 school year.
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PENDLETON — In May, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported carbon dioxide levels were recorded at an average of over 417 parts…
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ELGIN — Despite the presence of familiar rumors, Elgin residents received a jolt this week when they learned their town’s 56-year-old Boise Cascade plywood plant soon could close.
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ISLAND CITY — To walk on to Island City Elementary School’s campus on Wednesdays is to almost step back back in time seven months to the pre COVID-19 era.
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ELGIN — The game soon will be afoot at the Elgin Opera House.
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LA GRANDE — The Grande Ronde Symphony’s concert Oct. 3 reached more than 700 people, showcasing the success of holding virtual performances.
BAKER CITY — The Baker County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a report of animal neglect involving 11 horses on private property about 3 miles west of Richland.
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SALEM — The Oregon Health Authority’s latest face covering guidelines require masks, face coverings or face shields in all workplaces, indoor public spaces, outdoor businesses and in outdoor p…
PORTLAND — A vacant Greyhound bus station in downtown Portland will be opened temporarily as a homeless shelter.
CORVALLIS — A Corvallis woman pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide on Thursday, Oct. 22, in Polk County Circuit Court for a 2019 car crash that killed her teenage daughter.
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WALLOWA — Perfection is starting to become a theme in the Wallowa School District.
CORVALLIS — The obsolescence of humans is upon us.
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UNION COUNTY — Road work continues in Eastern Oregon as the Oregon Department of Transportation finishes some of its projects in the region. In Union, Wallowa and Baker counties, eight of ODOT…
SALEM — The Oregon Employment Department has launched a series of Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance virtual town halls.
OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska will never be mistaken for a swing state given that it hasn’t supported a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964, but if the race is close this fall, the state cou…
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PENDLETON — A Hermiston private school, with an enrollment of 51, is suing Gov. Kate Brown and several state agencies with the help of a conservative legal organization.
PORTLAND —Oregon Health Authority reported the state experienced an spike in opioid overdose deaths this past spring compared to last year, and public health experts believe use of illicit fen…
WASHINGTON — Their final debate behind them, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden are packaging their divergent personal styles and policy prescriptions into closing messages for the …
SEATTLE — New York, Seattle and Portland — three cities recently labeled "anarchist jurisdictions" by the U.S. Justice Department — filed a lawsuit Thursday, Oct. 22, to invalidate the designa…
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UNION — The works of 11 members of the Stitch Witches 4-H Club are comforting the victims of the devastating fires in Western Oregon last month.
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UNION COUNTY — The Oregon Health Authority on Thursday, Oct. 22, reported Union County has six new cases of coronavirus.
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LA GRANDE — Eastern Oregon University’s library could be getting a new name.
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UNION COUNTY — Voters are turning out early in Union County. According to the Union County Clerk’s office 2,021 people have cast their ballot as of Monday, Oct. 19, 15 days before election night.
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LA GRANDE — Nicole Howard wants to help La Grande businesses continue expanding their presence downtown.
WHITE SALMON, Wash. — It took nature millions of years to form the Columbia River Gorge. It took the Columbia River Gorge Commission four years to come to an agreement on its “Gorge 2020” Mana…
PORTLAND — Night after night in Portland, tear gas and other crowd control devices have enveloped protesters and bystanders in airborne chemicals that settle on the ground, later to be washed …
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PENDLETON — The National Weather Service in Pendleton said a pair of weather systems moving through the region this week will bring a drop in temperatures and could include snow and freezing t…
JACKSON COUNTY — Environmental crews are focusing on cleaning up hazardous materials in southern Oregon at mobile home parks and communities with clusters of manufactured homes that were parti…
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Tuesday, Oct. 20, sued Google for abusing its dominance in online search and advertising — the government's most significant attempt to protect competiti…
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WASHINGTON — Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to three federal crim…
SALEM — The Oregon Department of Corrections is moving ahead with its plan to end most of its adult education contracts with Blue Mountain Community College and other Oregon community colleges…
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SALEM — State health officials could distribute the first doses of COVID-19 vaccinations as early as the end of this month if it’s approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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ENTERPRISE — The Wallowa Whitman and Umatilla national forests will receive $2.7 million to improve forest resiliency, reduce long-term costs of fire management and improve watershed condition…
KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 11 women were trampled to death when a stampede broke out Wednesday, Oct. 21, among thousands of Afghans waiting in a soccer stadium to get visas to leave the cou…
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BAKER CITY — A $147,203 federal grant will help Baker Technical Institute provide better distance education training to students pursuing health care careers in remote areas of the region in t…
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LA GRANDE — The results of a local assessment shows the needs of the community’s oldest residents are not being met.
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ELGIN — The Boise Cascade Company announced it might shut down its plywood plant in Elgin in early 2021.
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LA GRANDE — Local doctors and public health are hopeful the measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 will deliver similar benefits as the flu season takes flight.
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ISLAND CITY — October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Shelter From the Storm has worked to show that in downtown La Grande.
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BAKER CITY — The excessive force policy the Baker City Council has been asked to approve to allow New Directions Northwest to receive a $1 million grant to build a Wellness Center is a routine…
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BOARDMAN — Boardman Generating Station went offline for good on Thursday, Oct. 15, marking an end to Oregon’s coal-burning era.
HERMISTON — The Blue Mountain Enforcement Narcotics Team arrested 21 suspects in the dealing and manufacturing of fentanyl throughout Umatilla and Morrow counties as a part of Operation West C…
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UNION — The city of Union could be in a better position to respond to some emergencies more quickly if voters approve a revised charter in the Nov. 3 election, according to Union city officials.
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