Baker City, OR

SALEM – The Oregon Transportation Commission has approved $3.7 million in new aviation and rail projects in Morrow, Umatilla, and Union Counties. The new funding is part of Connect Oregon, an initiative established by the 2005 state legislature to invest in non-highway modes of transportation. These projects went through...

BAKER COUNTY – A check in the amount of $4,000 will be donated to Shared Hope International. The funds were raised during a Walk for Awareness event in Baker City earlier this morning. The first annual event was put on my Soroptimists International of Baker County and was to raise awareness against Child Sex Trafficking.

EUGENE — Numerous local athletes represented Union and Wallowa counties admirably at this weekend’s track and field state championships in Eugene. Powder Valley senior Kaiden Krieger stole the show in the boys 1A championships, winning three individual titles en route to a second-place team finish for the Badgers.

BAKER CITY – Baker School District Superintendent Mark Witty sat down with Elkhorn Media Group News Director Shannon McKone to discuss the highlights of last week’s Baker School Board meeting. (SM) Thank you for joining me, Mr. Witty. There was a school board meeting yesterday evening. Would you...

UNION/UMATILLA COUNTIES – (Information from ODOT) Work on the closed EB side of the freeway will include continued removal of existing asphalt in the slow lane where new concrete pavement will be constructed and the fast lane where new asphalt will be placed. Trucks will be entering and leaving the work zone into live traffic at both ends of the project all week, so please use caution when driving through.