Warm Springs

An idea sparked by Warm Springs teens culminated this spring in a new skate park enjoyed by community members of all ages.

The museum opened in 1993, becoming a national model for how tribes control their own treasures, and share their own histories.

A conversation with the Executive Director of The Museum at Warm Springs.

After several days of water distribution interruption due to an electrical fire at a treatment plant, residents of Warm Springs should be seeing service resuming.

Officials with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs have declared an emergency as about 4,000 people brace for outages.

Longtime issues with an aging water system on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation have gotten worse with an emergency water conservation notice issued after an underground fire shut the tribes’ water treatment plant.

To bring back an iconic getaway and economic driver, the Warm Springs Tribal Council agrees to spend federal funds and enlist an outside operator. Target reopening date would be in 2023.

The massive infrastructure bill signed earlier this year promises to bring change to Native American tribes that lack clean water or indoor plumbing through the largest single infusion of money into Indian Country.

On the rural Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Central Oregon, safe running water isn’t a given. Federal officials are tying solutions to an embattled, multi-trillion dollar infrastructure bill.

The increasing size and severity of wildfires is producing anxiety on the Warm Springs reservation about the next big fire.