Eastern Oregon

Legal action brought by Native American tribes and environmental groups sought to delay an archaeological survey at the proposed mining site.

Health leaders in Grant and Harney counties cite fears of worker shortages as the virus surges among unvaccinated people. Legislators claim mandates will backfire in the long run, and further entrench vaccine skeptics.

The Air Force wants to expand its low-altitude training range into Oregon and Nevada but hasn't held public meetings in either state. Oregon's U.S. senators are urging them to reconsider.

The federal agency has reopened the environmental review process on a proposal to restrict mining and drilling in sage grouse habitat.

A proposal to allow low-altitude training for the Air Force, sending planes as low as 100 feet off the ground, is ruffling feathers in the Owyhee Canyonlands.

Officials say over half of all patients hospitalized as of Tuesday at CHI St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton, Oregon, have tested positive for COVID-19. For one patient in need of a transfer, health care workers contacted 15 hospitals before finding one with an available bed, Smith said.

Conditions remain ripe for wildfire Tuesday across much of Central, Southern and Eastern Oregon.

Sheriff’s officials say a deputy shot and killed an adult pet chimpanzee named Buck after it attacked a woman in Eastern Oregon.

The National Weather Service has issued red flag warnings in Central and Southern Oregon, and a fire weather watch across much of Eastern Oregon.

In northeast Oregon’s Union County, the snowpack is so thin that it has completely melted away in measurement sites.