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Baker City Council tables proposal to change Main Street downtown from 4 lanes to 3
The Baker City Council on Monday night, Nov. 17, tabled a recommendation from city staff to change the ...
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Baker City Council will consider recommendation to change Main Street from 4 lanes to 3
Councilors will consider proposal during their Nov. 17 meeting The Baker City Council will consider a recommendation to ...
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St. Francis de Sales Cathedral in Baker City restoring stained glass windows
After 102 years of filtering sunlight into St. Francis de Sales Cathedral, several stained glass windows are being ...
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Grande Ronde Symphony performs in La Grande, Baker City
The Grande Ronde Symphony will present fall concerts, titled “Join Us at the Theatre,” as they introduce new ...
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Baker City residents gather to honor veterans
An Army sergeant who rescued wounded comrades despite being shot in the head during a war more than ...
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Pet food drive underway for Best Friends of Baker
Baker County residents have multiple ways to help pets during the holiday season. Wheatland Insurance and Katherine Bailey, ...
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Register soon for Baker City’s Twilight Parade
Parade is part of festive holiday weekend BAKER CITY — Registration is open for the 2025 Twilight Parade. ...
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Isaiah Jones playing for EOU men’s basketball as freshman
LA GRANDE — Former Baker High School basketball standout Isaiah Jones, the two-time Oregon Class 4A player of ...
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Baker Community Band presents fall concert
The Baker Community Band will hold its fall concert on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the ...
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One of 3 Baker City residents arrested this year in meth sales investigation pleads guilty to meth possession, sentenced to probation
One of three Baker City residents arrested earlier this year for allegedly selling methamphetamines pleaded guilty to a ...
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Oregon Trail Interpretive Center reopens as federal government shutdown ends
With the federal government shutdown over, the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center near Baker City has reopened. ...
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Baker City Council to consider quiet zone agreement during Nov. 17 meeting
The Baker City Council will consider approving an agreement with Union Pacific Railroad to create a train whistle ...
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Baker City Council to consider attaching liens to 10 properties with unpaid weed-cutting bills
The Baker City Council will consider imposing tax liens on 10 properties whose owners haven’t paid the city ...
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Competing for the prize pasta
On Nov. 13, the intermediate culinary arts classes at Baker Technical Institute created pasta dishes for a panel ...
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Sturgeon fishing won’t open on Jan. 1 for Bonneville, The Dalles pools on Columbia River
Season could open later in the winter when water cools PORTLAND — Sturgeon fishing will not open as ...
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Wolves have killed calves in Baker, Morrow, Grant, Umatilla, Wallowa counties over past several weeks
ODFW reported a slew of wolf attacks and kills on livestock in recent weeks in Eastern Oregon.
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2021 heat dome left Rhode Island-sized damage in Oregon’s western forests
A study from Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service found the four-day extreme heat event scorched ...
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No sign of autumn chill as November remains abnormally mild in Baker County
So much for autumn chill. November has been abnormally mild in Baker County, with high temperatures above normal ...
Elections
Response to Trump’s agenda key sticking point in Oregon 2026 governor’s race, poll says
President Donald Trump’s crackdown on Portland and cuts to food stamps and health insurance his party passed this ...
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Baker City man with history of running from police flees from several officers, remains at large
BAKER CITY — A Baker City man with an arrest warrant for violating his probation on a methamphetamine ...
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Grant will help assess wagons at Interpretive Center
Crossroads Carnegie Art Center received a $6,700 grant to assess the condition of 10 wagons at the Oregon ...
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Volunteer program proves American pika populations growing in Columbia River Gorge
The tiny mammals, which resemble rabbits, are a bellwether species for the effects of climate change The population ...
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Robbie Fulks tours to Baker City
His trio plays Nov. 19 at Churchill School BAKER CITY — The sound of Robbie Fulks is described ...
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Former Baker City fire chief appeals dismissal of his $999,999 civil suit against city
BAKER CITY — A former Baker City fire chief has appealed a court ruling dismissing his $999,999 civil ...
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U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear Oregon prison union case
Oregon is known for some of the strongest labor protections for workers in the nation, though the state ...