Warm Springs

Tribal officials lambast Deschutes County over "pattern of dismissing Warm Springs treaty-reserved rights."

Regrowth and renewal were the themes of a special ceremony in Blue River on Sunday. The event was also to highlight the history of Native Americans in the McKenzie River Corridor.

Kah-Nee-Ta Hot Springs Resort on the Warm Springs reservation in central Oregon reopens to the public Thursday after a long-awaited multimillion-dollar renovation.

The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs celebrated an expanded Pi-Ume-Sha for the 55th annual event, also known as "Treaty Days."

The money will fund improvements to the U.S. Highway 26 corridor through the reservation, such as speed reduction treatments, a new roundabout and a multi-use path. Additional funds will go to projects in Portland and Salem.

A referendum on a retail storefront for tribally-grown cannabis fell flat.

Three appeals court judges found the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals, or LUBA, made a mistake earlier this year when it shut down opposition brought by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs against Deschutes County.

Central Oregon Native American hip-hop artist Blue Flamez recently won an arts fellowship with a six-figure award to reach a wider audience.

The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs argue that Deschutes County’s latest decision on the resort project showed a disregard for Indigenous knowledge, but the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals says “it is not our role to reweigh the evidence.”

A local-land use skirmish raises big questions about tribal sovereignty and groundwater.