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Baker City’s community Christmas tree is in place, and pumpkins are grateful
BAKER CITY — Workers are hauling away the fine Douglas-fir from Terry Galyen’s yard but he feels as ...
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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 man seeking Republican nomination in 2026 for Democrat Jeff Merkley’s U.S. Senate seat
BAKER CITY — A Baker City man who is a former candidate for Baker County Commission chairman and ...
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Baker County residents join effort to give voters a say on $4 billion increase in taxes, fees for road projects
BAKER CITY — Julie Mespelt was eager to sign a petition seeking to give Oregon voters a chance ...
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Organizer hopes to set new attendance record for teenage New Year’s Eve party in Baker City
BAKER CITY — Andy Micka wants to welcome 2026 with a record-setting New Year’s Eve party for Baker ...
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2 Oregon men cited for allegedly using deceased relatives’ identities to apply for big game hunting tags
Two Oregon men were cited for identity theft and other charges in Baker County on Oct. 28 for ...
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District attorney’s office to make settlement offer to suspect in Aug. 7 arson fire in Baker City
BAKER CITY — The Baker County District Attorney’s office will make a settlement offer to the Baker City ...
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Forest Service investigating rash of fires on Malheur National Forest
JOHN DAY — U.S. Forest Service officials are investigating a rash of six wildfires reported over a four-day ...
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Pine Eagle teacher receives $2,500 award for innovative teaching
HALFWAY — BoDean Tayer’s second grade classroom at Pine Eagle Charter School is going to look quite different ...
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Baker City Fire Chief excited about starting cadet program for ages 14-19
BAKER CITY — Baker City Fire Chief Michael Carlson envisions a future when many, if not most, of ...
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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 ...