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Updated Jan 6, 2025Hermiston

Dec 29, 2024 · Gov. Tina Kotek, center, meets with community leaders April 24, 2024, in Boardman to discuss the status of work on nitrate contamination and what support her team could provide to the community. The governor’s office on Sept. 20, 2024, published its Nitrate Reduction Plan to address nitrate contamination in the Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater Management Area. Yasser Marte/East Oregonian, File

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A proposal meant to discourage squalid living conditions at illegal cannabis operations in Oregon is raising fears of broader legal impacts for rural landowners. Landowners would be jointly liable for violating the state’s requirements for farmworker camps along with their operators under re…

Dec 27, 2024 · Leroy Lopez, owner of Greater Purpose Heating & Cooling, talks Dec. 19, 2024, about transitioning his mobile operation to a storefront business at his shop in Umatilla.

Dec 26, 2024 · Executive Director Robbin Ferguison discusses helping sexual assault victims on Dec. 18, 2023, at Domestic Violence Services in Pendleton. The nonprofit organization’s December 2024 newsletter invites people to provide support by making financial donations, purchasing items from its wish list or becoming a volunteer. Yasser Marte/East Oregonian, File

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Nov 27, 2024 · HERMISTON — Project PATH, the transitional housing program on Lind Road, was paid a visit Monday night, Nov. 25, by members of the Hermiston City Council.

Jan 2, 2025 · The major disaster declaration triggers the release of federal funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help communities in those counties recover from wildfires that were part of a record-setting season in Oregon that burned nearly 2 million acres statewide — about three times the amount in an average year.