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In Warm Springs, a skate park becomes a community centerpiece
An idea sparked by Warm Springs teens culminated this spring in a new skate park enjoyed by community members of all ages.
Trailblazing Museum at Warm Springs celebrates 30 years, and looks to the future
The museum opened in 1993, becoming a national model for how tribes control their own treasures, and share their own histories.
Exhibit at Warm Springs museum focuses on stereotypes
A conversation with the Executive Director of The Museum at Warm Springs.
Tap water returns to Warm Springs, but with a boil water notice
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.

Warm Springs residents prepare for water outage to continue through Root Feast
Officials with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs have declared an emergency as about 4,000 people brace for outages.
Warm Springs reservation water treatment plant offline due to fire
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.

Warm Springs leaders unveil plan to reopen Kah-Nee-Ta pools
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.

Infrastructure bill to aid tribes with water, including at Warm Springs
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.
Oregon’s US senators focus on Warm Springs reservation in fight over infrastructure spending
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.

After Lionshead, threat of megafires looms large on Warm Springs reservation
The increasing size and severity of wildfires is producing anxiety on the Warm Springs reservation about the next big fire.