NYSSA – A lease to run the Treasure Valley Reload Center favors a corporate giant and its local onion partners while providing little return for taxpayers putting up $29 million to build the public rail center. The 24-page agreement was struck behind closed doors over months with no public oversight.[Read More…]

PORTLAND – The name Alpenrose Dairy takes many people back to their childhood, evoking memories of Little League, Dairyville and Storybook Lane. The southwest Portland landmark was sold in 2019, but on Monday, July 26, the public got a chance to bid on pieces of memorabilia. In the Dairyville Special Session[Read More…]

EUGENE – On a Friday night in March 2020, Landon Payne returned to his Eugene home high on meth, panicked and paranoid. He’d been clean for three years, but now, after using methamphetamine again, he believed people wanted to kill him.  His wife wanted to help. Angie Payne knew Landon[Read More…]

Michael Mastagni starts his day at Five Mile Ranch northeast of Beatty. (JOE SIESS/Herald and News) KLAMATH FALLS – In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Michael and Katie Mastagni saddled up for another long day of tracking down their cattle over landscape scorched by the Bootleg Fire. As the[Read More…]

KLAMATH FALLS – Judy Shanks starts her shift at Basin Ambulance at 5 a.m. each morning. She likes to start and finish work early, so she can return to her Malin home in the afternoon and tend to her livestock. But lately, rather than saddling up and going for a[Read More…]

KLAMATH FALLS – The nation’s largest wildfire torched more dry forest in Oregon and forced the evacuation of a wildlife research station Monday as firefighters had to retreat from the flames for the ninth consecutive day due to erratic and dangerous fire behavior. Firefighters were forced to pull back as[Read More…]

An oak tree casts a long, early morning shadow across a field of camas root in bloom at Bush’s Pasture Park in Salem. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) John Nohr, the fire chief for parts of Clark and Cowlitz counties in Washington state, was driving down Interstate 5 when another firefighter asked[Read More…]

The Lava Fire, still burning near Mount Shasta in Northern California, damaged a portion of the Union Pacific Railroad on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The damage has forced freight traffic to reroute, created delays and cancellations for Amtrak passengers, and has left Klamath Falls without passenger rail service. The Coast[Read More…]

PORTLAND – A huge part of the future is blockchain technology. Think of blockchain as a permanent digital list of data: who, when, where, how much. When data needs to be entered, it’s sent to a network of computers that could be physically spread across the globe, to validate it.[Read More…]