Baker City Herald

The Baker City Herald is a newspaper that comes out three times a week in Baker City, Oregon, USA, with its first edition published in 1870. This paper is released on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays by Western Communications and has a circulation of 2,304 copies. It faces competition from The Record-Courier, which is published weekly.

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BAKER TRAP SHOOTING: Bulldogs win 2nd straight state title; Hurliman girls state champion, Schuh ties for 3rd in boys - Baker City Herald

5 days ago | bakercityherald.com | Jayson Jacoby

HILLSBORO — The Baker High School trapshooting team has repeated as state champions. But it was hardly easy. The Bulldogs had a team score of 467 in the state tournament Sunday, June 22, at Hillsboro. That was two shots better than Crook County, and five ahead of Newberg. Baker’s Riley Hurliman was the top girls shooter with a total of 94 hits out of 100 targets.
Letter to the editor for June 22, 2025 - Baker City Herald

5 days ago | bakercityherald.com | Jayson Jacoby

Been a good while since I’ve checked in and wow! just wow! Let’s put those double wows! aside and investigate my very intelligent and informed Trump-loving neighbors. I have made some lists, starting with what “you still have.”You still have your racism, misogyny and insane support of a rapist pedophile fascist felon. You still have thankfulness that your golden idol pardoned convicted traitors and violent criminals that killed police officers.
News of Record for June 22, 2025 - Baker City Herald

5 days ago | bakercityherald.com | Jayson Jacoby

PROBATION VIOLATION (Baker County Justice Court warrant): Raymond John Unrein III, 24, Baker City, 8:59 p.m. June 21 at Fourth and Miller streets; cited and released. DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF INTOXICANTS: Robert Edward Ison, 64, Baker City, 12:02 p.m. June 21 in the 1500 block of Campbell Street; cited and released.
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden in Baker City for town hall - Baker City Herald

1 week ago | bakercityherald.com | Jayson Jacoby

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden is in Baker City on Friday, June 20, for a public town hall at the Baker City Armory. Jayson has worked at the Baker City Herald since November 1992, starting as a reporter. He has been editor since December 2007. He graduated from the University of Oregon Journalism School in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in news-editorial journalism. More by Jayson Jacoby
Burnt River's Krece Moore reserve champion in team roping at Oregon State High School Rodeo finals, qualifies for national finals - Baker City Herald

1 week ago | bakercityherald.com | Jayson Jacoby

Krece Moore of Burnt River Charter School in Unity has qualified for the National High School Rodeo Finals after finishing as reserve champion in team roping heeler at the Oregon state finals June 11-14 in Prineville. Moore also placed eighth in tiedown roping. The National High School Finals are July 13-19 in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Several other Eastern Oregon competitors placed in the top 10 and qualified for the Silver State International Rodeo June 30-July 7 in Winnemucca, Nevada.
News of Record for June 20, 2025 - Baker City Herald

1 week ago | bakercityherald.com | Jayson Jacoby

CONTEMPT OF COURT: Katrienna Dani-Michelle Fine, 18, Baker City, 2:53 p.m. June 19 at D Street and the Leo Adler Memorial Parkway; cited and released. WARRANT (Payette County, Idaho, lewd conduct with a minor under 16): Travis Alan Nichols, 38, Baker City, 3:58 p.m. June 18 at B and Ninth streets; jailed. June 19, 10:36 a.m. on Campbell Street at the freeway overpass; accident with property damage. June 19, 9:55 a.m. in the 1100 block of Campbell Street; accident with property damage.
Two small fires contained near Durkee Thursday night - Baker City Herald

1 week ago | bakercityherald.com | Jayson Jacoby

Firefighters contained two small fires near Durkee on Thursday night, June 19. Water Hole Fire was reported about 10:23 p.m. about 3 miles north of Durkee. It burned 0.29 acres, according to the BLM’s Vale District dispatch. The Pritchard Creek Fire, about 3 miles northwest of Durkee, burned half an acre and was reported about 10:45 p.m.The cause isn’t listed for either blaze.
EDITORIAL: Potential positives, and negatives, in federal proposal to sell public lands - Baker City Herald

1 week ago | bakercityherald.com | Jayson Jacoby

A Republican-led proposal to sell about 3.3 million acres of public land in the West, potentially including parcels in Oregon, is an intriguing idea. Done with reasonable consideration and care, the concept could boost property tax revenue, help with the housing shortage and simplify management, transferring to private ownership parcels of public land that are surrounded by private property and lack legal public access now.
Trout-stocking experiment at Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder showing early promise - Baker City Herald

1 week ago | bakercityherald.com | Jayson Jacoby

Ethan Brandt is optimistic that an experiment involving 43,000 rainbow trout will succeed. The laboratory, so to speak, is Thief Valley Reservoir. The impoundment in the sagebrush country several miles east of North Powder, in Union County just north of the Baker County line, was created in the 1930s when the Powder River was dammed to store irrigation water for the Keating Valley.
Work crew from Powder River Correctional Facility to start picking up trash along Old Highway 30 - Baker City Herald

1 week ago | bakercityherald.com | Jayson Jacoby

A crew of up to 10 inmates from the Powder River Correctional Facility is scheduled to pick up trash along a section of Old Highway 30 near Baker City where residents say items falling from vehicles going to the landfill create both a traffic hazard and an eyesore. Baker County commissioners voted 3-0 on Wednesday morning, June 18, to approve a one-year adopt a highway agreement between the minimum-security prison and the county road department.