Baker City Herald

12/19/2025

Commercial trucks that don't put on chains continue to contribute to extended closures of Interstate 84 through Northeastern Oregon.

BAKER CITY — Sections of Interstate 84 between Pendleton and Ontario were closed for about 11 hours on Thursday, Dec. 18, and the blockage started with one commercial truck that lost traction and blocked the eastbound lanes in Ladd Canyon.

12/19/2025

Thursday's storm helped, but the mountain snowpack remains well below average.

A warm front that brought widespread snow to Northeastern Oregon on Thursday, Dec. 18, boosted the region’s mountain snowpack, but this remains one of the slowest starts to the snowpack season in more than four decades.

12/19/2025

Patrol cases dropped by 4.4% this year, and 911 calls were down by 8.8%.

The Baker County Sheriff’s Office has handled 19% fewer calls this year compared with 2024, and Sheriff Travis Ash told county commissioners he sees the trend as contributing to making the county a better place to live.

12/19/2025

Grand jury indicted Joshua Adam Carpenter on 5 counts, including second-degree assault, a Measure 11 offense that on conviction carries a mandatory minimum prison term of 70 months.

A Baker City man was arrested Saturday afternoon, Dec. 13, for allegedly assaulting a man in Haines, and threatening to kill the man, on Friday night, Dec. 12.

12/19/2025

All 5 of Greenhorn's city councilors' terms end Dec. 31. The three councilors, all incumbents, appointed by commissioners will fill the 2 remaining openings.

BAKER CITY — Nobody lives year-round in Greenhorn, the historic mining town at the western tip of Baker County, but it’s an incorporated city and thus it needs a city council.

12/19/2025

Bulldogs winning easily over Elma, Washington, in the first of three games at the Seaside tournament, leading 51-14 in the third quarter.

The Baker girls basketball team swapped Eastern Oregon snow for coastal rain, traveling Thursday, Dec. 18, to Seaside High School to start play in a three-day tournament.

12/19/2025

Four Baker City elementary schools raised money for the organization that helps children.

Four Baker City elementary schools combined donations from a coin drive to raise $2,481 for CASA of Eastern Oregon.

12/18/2025

12/18/2025

Owner recovered the sleigh after a light pole at the Baker Sports Complex interrupted its impromptu flight.

When Courtney Ashby bought the inflatable Santa sleigh a few weeks ago to decorate her front yard during Christmas she wasn’t expecting the nylon contraption to perform quite so literally.

12/18/2025

Safe Families for Children of Eastern Oregon will use $25,000 grant to help people dealing with effects of opioid abuse.

The $25,000 grant to Safe Families for Children of Eastern Oregon will help people struggling with opioid abuse and its effects BAKER CITY — A Baker City nonprofit that strives to help children and families in Baker and Union counties is the first to receive a grant through Baker County’s share ...

12/18/2025

Tuesday's record of 53 degrees was set in the afternoon, but Wednesday's record of 52 degrees happened in the first few hours of the day, before a cold front arrived.

Mild south winds boosted the temperature to a record high of 53 on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 16, at the Baker City Airport.

12/18/2025

Are you pining for a white Christmas, or pleased by the unusually balmy fall?

The people dashing through the snow and jingling bells and otherwise having near rapturous experiences during the Christmas season never have to worry about wind gusts toppling their trash cans.