LA GRANDE — The La Grande City Council voted against the city's latest annexation phase. The 4-2 decision against the plan came Wednesday, Jan. 8, during the packed La Grande City Council ...

Despite a 35 percent increase in the volume of patients in the Family Birthing Center at Grande Ronde Hospital, it is thriving and recently received 100 percent on a nationwide simulation ...

UNION COUNTY — The Union County Board of Commissioners will host its first meeting of the year Wednesday, Jan. 8, beginning at 9 a.m. in the Joseph Building Annex Conference Room, 1106 K Ave.

LA GRANDE — The search for a new city manager soon will be underway in La Grande. After 17 years as city manager, Robert Strope announced he retire later this year. During the regular session ...

Do you have a point you’d like to make or an issue you feel strongly about? Submit a letter to the editor or a guest column. As we closed out 2024, I reflect on a year of milestones ...

LA GRANDE — Eight years ago Donna Beverage was alarmed, not by what she saw, but what she did not see. The Union resident was starting her first term as a member of the Union County Board of ...

UNION COUNTY — Oregon State Police on Jan. 1 arrested a Pendleton man who fled from law enforcement following an attempted traffic stop for speeding on Interstate 84. OSP arrested Kenneth ...

LA GRANDE — The Nez Perce historical exhibit is leaving Eastern Oregon University in La Grande for Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton following the winter break. Winter term for EOU ...

Group exercise is very popular: Nearly 40% of regular exercisers participate in group fitness classes. In advance of the coronavirus pandemic, the American College of Sports Medicine predicted ...

BAKER CITY — Minnesota’s indie rock band Bad Bad Hats was touring their third album when they played in May 2022 at Churchill School. Now, following a 10th anniversary release of their first ...

Newspapers often wrap up the the year with a list of their top reporting of the previous 12 months. The East Oregonian did that, but this review of the year is different because we're now a ...