Jayson Jacoby

Firefighters made good progress on one task on the McCully Fire on the final day of August, but they also gained a new one as the blaze spread to the northwest into the North Fork John Day Wilderness along the ridge east of Baldy Creek.

SUMPTER — Sarah Ward had pined for years to live in the woods, and she picked a place where ponderosas greatly outnumber people.

BAKER CITY — Buoyed by the start of construction on the Boardman to Hemingway power line, Idaho Power Company remains by a wide margin the biggest property taxpayer in Baker […]

Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative lineman and other union workers who went on strike Aug. 24 will return to their jobs Thursday, Sept. 3, after the employees ratified a contract offer […]

The area was damaged by the Fox Fire in late July HUNTINGTON — The BLM plans to reopen the boat ramp and parking areas at Spring Recreation

September's slightly soggy start follows the driest late spring and summer in Baker City in more than 80 years.

Kent Virtue awakened hours before a July dawn, thinking of Sept. 11, 2001.

BAKER CITY — Judge Matt Shirtcliff said after a four-hour hearing Friday, Sept. 4, that he will issue a written decision soon on a defense motion to prevent the prosecution from using at trial information from a police interview with a Baker City woman charged with manslaughter in the death of her newborn baby in her home in late December 2024.

Crews on the McCully Fire north of Sumpter are focusing on mopping up smoldering hot spots as the blaze, cooled by heavy rain, light snow and sub-freezing temperatures, remains relatively quiet.