Umatilla in Eastern Oregon getting big run of coho
PENDLETON (AP) Fisheries experts say there s been a big run of coho salmon this year up the Umatilla River in Eastern Oregon. It s expected to be the second largest run since efforts began in the 1980s to restore the fish to the Umatilla after a 70...
 0.6K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 272.0 North Bend Hall of Fame inductees
George Edward Gebhardt (Class of 1933): Gebhardt was born in 1915 and was class president during his time at North Bend High School. He also won the Coos County extemporary speaking contest and was selected Outstanding Senior Boy. He earned a degree...
4.7K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 68.0 Plane, copter collide
LOS ANGELES (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy were searching early today for as many as nine people off the Southern California coast following a collision between a Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter, officials said. The crash was re...
2.4K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 272.0 Pendleton man to buy troubled gorge hotel
PORTLAND (AP) The troubled Columbia Gorge Hotel may have found a buyer after it closed last January. Vijay Patel, who owns a small chain of hotels in Eastern Oregon and Washington state, told The Oregonian he will buy the historic hotel for more th...
2.3K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 409.0 Native Americans learn about culture preservation
PORTLAND Malissa Minthorn stands at the back of a cavernous ballroom in the Red Lion Hotel on the River. Blue, yellow, silver and black beads cascade over her shoulders in a dress that her grandmother wore to weddings and funerals on the Umatilla R...
4.7K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 68.0 Oregon man sues fertilizer company
PENDLETON (AP) An Eastern Oregon man is suing one of North America s largest fertilizer producers because of an anhydrous ammonia leak in 2007. The East Oregonian newspaper reports Stacey Hetterley of Athena wants Agrium U.S., two subsidiaries and ...
0.7K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 272.0 Umatilla County reports 2 flu deaths
PENDLETON (AP) Public health officials in Umatilla County said the swine flu is highly suspected in the weekend deaths a child and a middle-age adult. Genni Lambert, administrator of the county s public health division, said Monday the pair were ...
0.6K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 68.0 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 68.0 Explosive fears
There were the two in August, and a hoax or two in January, but law enforcement officials say bomb incidents in Coos County are not becoming an explosive trend. That doesn t mean they re putting down their guard. The potential risk to human life is a...
5.5K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 68.0 Oregon teen finds rare butterfly on Mount Rainier
PENDLETON (AP) An Oregon teenager working on a research project in Mount Rainier National Park spotted a rare butterfly that hadn t been seen before in the area. Michael Miller of Milton-Freewater was part an Oregon Museum of Science and Industry c...
2.4K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 68.0 Calif. firefighters wage fierce wildfire battles
LOS ANGELES (AP) Firefighters beat back flames licking at ocean-view estates Friday, while another wildfire raged through a dry forest above Los Angeles foothill suburbs. Residents nervously watched aircraft drop loads of water and retardant on ne...
5.6K - Aug. 29, 2009; scored 68.0 Fire destroys Pilot Rock's only bar
PILOT ROCK (AP) A fire has destroyed the only bar in Pilot Rock. The Round-Up Room went up in smoke Monday at about 6:30 a.m. Pilot Rock Fire Chief Brian Hemphill said the first firefighters tried to attack the flames from inside, but had to retrea...
0.7K - Aug. 25, 2009; scored 107.0 State investigating death at Pacific Power
PENDLETON (AP) The state agency that enforces workplace safety rules is looking into the death of a journeyman lineman killed in an incident at Pacific Power in Pendleton. Power poles struck 48-year-old Gary W. Anderson on July 14 and he died 10 da...
0.5K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 107.0 Shelly A. Price
Burial was held for Shelly A. Price, 55, of Lakeside, June 18, 2009. Shelly, beloved wife, loving mother and granny and precious daughter and sister, was born Oct. 21, 1953, in Lebanon, to Richard and Wanda Schradle. She died June 12, 2009, in Lakesi...
0.9K - Jul. 21, 2009; scored 68.0 Warren Neal Browning
A celebration of life service will be held for Warren Neal Browning, 93, of Sumner, at 1:30 p.m., Friday, July 17, at Coos Bay Chapel, 685 Anderson Ave. A private graveside service was held June 17, 2009, at Sumner Cemetery. Warren was born Dec. 18, ...
2.8K - Jul. 10, 2009; scored 68.0 Marines exchange fire with Taliban
NAWA, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines hiked through searing heat and took fire from small pockets of militants today after landing in this Taliban-controlled southern region of tree-lined fields, mud homes and crisscrossing waterways in the first major op...
7.7K - Jul. 2, 2009; scored 68.0 Tires, manure may be used for clean energy
BOARDMAN (AP) - It may not smell that way, but old tires and cow manure could mean clean energy at Threemile Canyon Farms near this Columbia River town. Portland-based Northwest Biogas has proposed using the tires and cow manure to make methane on th...
1.8K - Jun. 15, 2009; scored 68.0 Betty Lee Golden
A memorial celebration will be held for Betty Lee Golden, 59, of Woodburn at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 30, at the Oregon Coast Culinary Institute on the campus of Southwestern Oregon Community College, 1988 Newmark Ave. in Coos Bay. Betty was born Jan. 10...
2.1K - May. 28, 2009; scored 68.0 Pentagon flu pandemic response plan gives military larger role, but it expected Asian source
WASHINGTON (AP) - The rapid spread of swine flu from Mexico surprised Pentagon officials, who had been focused on a possible Asian-borne pandemic in a response plan that would give the military a last-resort role in helping to impose quarantines and ...
1.5K - May. 20, 2009; scored 68.0 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 68.0 | 
