Pirates push back playoff start time
Marshfield will have a later start time than usual for its playoff game Friday against Hermiston, while Gold Beach will return to Pete Susick Stadium for the sixth time in four seasons. The state football playoffs begin this weekend with games around...
 3.1K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 218.0 Oregon driver falls asleep, hits troopers
THE DALLES (AP) The driver of a minivan on Interstate 84 fell asleep and veered off the freeway. If that wasn t bad enough, the driven then slammed into a parked Oregon State Police car injuring two troopers and three in the van. The troopers were ...
0.6K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 218.0 OSAA committee releases final proposal
Barring a last-minute switch by the Oregon School Activities Association s Executive Board, the sports leagues involving the South Coast will see little change next year. The final proposal for the OSAA s Classification and Districting Committee this...
3.0K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 218.0 Car hits cow carcass, man dies
BAKER CITY (AP) Oregon state troopers said at least four vehicles hit a cow that wandered onto Interstate 84 Friday night, killing it. Then a Lincoln Continental struck the carcass and rolled, killing a passenger. Troopers said Saturday they re inv...
0.7K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 218.0 City, tribes clash over an 1855 fishing treaty
ARLINGTON More than 150 years after signing a treaty ceding land but preserving their hunting and fishing rights, Columbia River tribes are locked in a legal dispute with this tiny port over whether those rights can change with the course of the ri...
5.4K - Aug. 3, 2009; scored 218.0 CB man is found dead
Oregon State Police have concluded their preliminary investigation on a Coos Bay man found dead in his motor home Thursday in Northeast Oregon. Norman L. McTaggert was found in his RV parked beside Interstate 84 west near Mosier. OSP, with the assist...
0.6K - Jul. 11, 2009; scored 218.0 Wind power development begins on public Oregon lands
FIELDS (AP) - Anchored among clumps of sage and purplish lupine, the guy wires of a solitary weather tower thrum with wind heading in a hurry toward Idaho and Nevada. They say that in the summer it shouts, but in the winter it screams, Elon Hasson s...
7.1K - Jun. 1, 2009; scored 218.0 Cavaliers win at the buzzer
CLEVELAND The Cleveland Cavaliers needed a miracle. LeBron James delivered. James made a fadeaway 3-pointer over Orlando s Hedo Turkoglu as the final horn sounded Friday night to give the Cavaliers, their season a heartbeat from major trouble, a 96...
4.9K - May. 23, 2009; scored 218.0 Newest OSAA proposal leaves Far West League unchanged
It doesn t appear likely that the Far West League will be split up to create a new league with North Bend playing schools in Newport and Lincoln City. The newest proposal by the Classification and Districting Committee of the Oregon School Activities...
3.2K - May. 19, 2009; scored 218.0 Kulongoski talks up bill to expand health care
WHITE CITY (AP) - With his health care bill about to start moving through the Legislature, Gov. Ted Kulongoski used visits to community health care centers Monday to talk about the economic benefits of expanding state coverage for kids and low-income...
2.6K - Apr. 21, 2009; scored 281.0 Plucky Pendleton is optimistic despite job cuts
PENDLETON (AP) - The loss of a Fleetwood Travel Trailers of Oregon plant and its 253 jobs is bringing both pain and optimism to this eastern Oregon rodeo and wheat town. Sales clerk Mary Bonifer ran her fingers over a tooled leather belt in the Hamle...
4.7K - Mar. 30, 2009; scored 218.0 New-look Bulldogs set for playoffs
As the newly-mohawked members of the North Bend boys basketball team joked and laughed with one another just before hopping on a bus for Baker City Monday morning, coach John Olson realized something. You haven t always seen these smiles, this camara...
4.8K - Mar. 3, 2009; scored 218.0 Forecasters warn of landslides as rain continues
The National Weather Service has issued an alert for people living or traveling through the Coast Range, from about Reedsport north to Astoria. The agency today is urging people to be aware there is a high potential for debris flows and landslides as...
2.5K - Jan. 6, 2009; scored 218.0 Westbound lanes of I-84 reopened in E. Oregon
MEACHAM, Ore. (AP) The Oregon Department of Transportation says the westbound lanes of Interstate 84 between La Grande and Pendleton reopened after being closed late Monday afternoon because of snow and ice. Spokesman Tom Strandberg says slippery c...
0.5K - Dec. 30, 2008; scored 873.0 Roads in Eastern Ore. closed, officials say
PORTLAND (AP) While the week s freezing temperatures warmed Saturday in the Portland area and more snow turned to slush, blizzard-like condition blew through the Grande Ronde Valley, dealing Eastern Oregon its sixth winter storm in two weeks, accor...
2.6K - Dec. 28, 2008; scored 218.0 Snow blankets West, ice glazes Midwest
RENO, Nev. (AP) Yet another snowstorm pummeled parts of the West, snarling holiday traffic and briefly darkening lights on Christmas trees, and freezing rain covered some Midwest highways with a dangerous sheet of ice. Winter storm warnings were is...
4.0K - Dec. 26, 2008; scored 325.0 Interstate 84 reopens east of Portland
PORTLAND (AP) The Portland region took a breather between storms on Tuesday, as National Guard troops helped to get medical supplies and transportation to the eastern suburb Gresham where people were socked in so hard that regular emergency vehicle...
3.1K - Dec. 23, 2008; scored 1000.0 Radioactive waste truck crashes near La Grande
LA GRANDE (AP) Oregon State Police say a truck loaded with low-level radioactive waste jackknifed and crashed on icy Interstate 84 near La Grande. State troopers says a hazardous materials team determined there was no leakage Monday of the unidenti...
0.6K - Dec. 23, 2008; scored 218.0 Winter snow storm stymies Northern Oregon
PORTLAND City buses got stuck in snow, parts of major highways were closed, and traffic slowed to crawl as the Portland area which rarely gets a significant snowstorm struggled Monday to cope with one of its worst in years. Wintry weather that ...
4.6K - Dec. 23, 2008; scored 281.0 Storm paralyzes Portland
PORTLAND (AP) City buses got stuck in snow, parts of major highways were closed, and traffic slowed to crawl as Portland and the rest of Western Oregon which rarely gets a significant snowstorm struggled Monday to cope with one of its worst in ...
4.3K - Dec. 22, 2008; scored 281.0 | 
