In 2022 the Baker County Fair Board received an unprecedented windfall from the state, a $2 million grant. The board used $400,000 of the grant to install two new sets of aluminum bleachers at the Fairgrounds arena, increasing seating capacity to 3,000 for events such as the bull and bronc riding during Miners Jubilee in July.

https://www.bakercityherald.com/news/local/new-bleachers-installed-at-baker-county-fairgrounds/article_793f72b6-2e3b-11ef-931d-0f39831fb67e.html

Attorneys for Idaho Power Company have filed two more condemnation lawsuits against Baker County landowners, seeking easements across their property for the Boardman to Hemingway power transmission line. The Boise company has filed four such suits over the past year.

https://www.bakercityherald.com/news/local/idaho-power-files-2-more-condemnation-suits-for-b2h/article_2d5323de-2e45-11ef-8364-bb27c36b2dac.html

The attorney for Shawn Quentin Greenwood, the Vale man who pleaded no contest in 2021 to three charges in the 2020 murder of Angela Parrish in Baker City, say Greenwood has served his prison sentence and is eligible to be released following a ruling from the Oregon Court of Appeals that dismissed one of the counts he pleaded no contest to. A hearing in the case is scheduled for July 3.

https://www.bakercityherald.com/news/local/attorney-says-shawn-greenwood-who-pleaded-no-contest-in-2020-murder-case-should-be-eligible/article_b25892d8-2f50-11ef-a7d9-974b793aaabf.html

Water and sewer rates in Baker City will rise by 6.3% starting July 1.

https://www.bakercityherald.com/news/local/baker-city-water-sewer-rates-rising-6-3-on-july-1/article_f0b8eeb4-2ffb-11ef-bf94-ebacd7b4a931.html