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Bentz to replace Walden in Congress

Republican Cliff Bentz of Ontario won by a wide margin in the race for the open congressional seat…

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Project Planned To Protect City Water

The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest is planning its largest project in about 20 years to reduce the risk of…

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Burning planned this fall in forest

The “window” has opened for lighting prescribed fires on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, but forest officials want to…

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Feds allocate money for forest work

The long-term effort to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires on federal forests in the northern Blue Mountains…

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‘It was devastating’: Baker firefighters recount time battling westside blazes

If the sign hadn’t survived, B.J. Lynch wouldn’t have known the pile of ashes was once a church.…

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Bracing For Blazes

  Gayle Combs can see the danger simply by looking out her windows. Trees. Towering ponderosa pines, some…

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Crews douse wildfires

A late-season lightning storm sparked two wildfires southeast of Baker City on Friday, but crews from multiple agencies…

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Halfway man convicted of reckless burning in 2018 cited for Monday fire

A Halfway man serving a three-year probation term for starting a Sept. 20, 2018, fire on his property…

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Cleaner air could be only temporary

Baker County’s air quality improved slightly Thursday and Friday and could be even better early this weekend, but…

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Stuck In Smoke

Ted White strolls the sidewalk on the north side of Auburn Avenue on a morning that more resembles…

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