ONTARIO – The Malheur Enterprise is suing the Ontario School Board over its repeated refusal to release documents relating to the censures of Vice Board Chair Eric Evans and former member Derrick Draper.  The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is representing the Enterprise in that organization’s first Local Legal[Read More…]

The John C. Boyle dam on the upper Klamath River with floodgates open (Bob Galindo/Wikimedia Commons) The effort to remove four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River cleared another regulatory hurdle Thursday after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission allowed the dams’ original owner to exit its license to operate the[Read More…]

Cathy Boone died homeless. She’d been living on the streets of Astoria despite inheriting a small fortune. The state of Oregon held more than $800,000 of her unclaimed money when the 49-year-old passed away in January 2020. “It just didn’t make any sense to me. That money was just sitting[Read More…]

KLAMATH FALLS – A group affiliated with People’s Rights Oregon’s has made clear their intentions to forcibly open the headgates of the Klamath Project. But many irrigators say the protesters don’t represent a majority of people who actually use the water that is being fought over. The People’s Rights Group[Read More…]

BAKER CITY – Noel Livingston and Joel McCraw ponder the coming fire season with not a small amount of dread. In this sense the pair shares something in common with people across Oregon, and indeed across the West, whose task it is to deal with wildfires. The combination of the[Read More…]

BEND – A recent study that draws heavily on Deschutes County found an “overwhelming consensus” among law enforcement officers that Oregon’s marijuana laws are poorly written and confusing. As a result, this perception has even led some local officers to stop enforcing marijuana laws altogether, according to the February report[Read More…]

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced Thursday the company would resume in-person performances in July. The festival closed its theaters on March 12, 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The musical “Fannie” will be its first show back in front of live audiences. The show, inspired by the life of civil[Read More…]

VALE – Finally, Malheur County was poised to recover some of the costs for the rail shipping project in Nyssa. Under a new deal approved last summer, the way seemed clear to get thousands of dollars in reimbursements, with the money coming out of the $26 million state fund set[Read More…]

The federal Bureau of Reclamation installed bulkheads into the A Canal headworks Wednesday morning, sealing the canal off from Upper Klamath Lake for the summer. (Klamath Falls Herald and News) KLAMATH FALLS – The federal Bureau of Reclamation announced Wednesday that Klamath Project’s A Canal will remain closed for the[Read More…]