Hermiston News

A day after an accidental emergency alert, the Umatilla Chemical Depot was dealing with the detection of a trace of mustard chemical agent inside a storage depot...The depot received about 200 calls from people concerned about the emergency message they...

U.S. soldiers in the Middle East are receiving coveted batteries from the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility and Umatilla Chemical Depot. Each time workers enter certain areas of the depot facility for incinerating che-mical weapons they carry communication devices with...

Members of nonprofit organizations are invited to the Hermiston Chamber of Commerce's annual nonprofit trade show luncheon on Nov. 24. Featured speaker is Ann Glynn, director of the Community Development Law Center in Portland, which is a program of Legal...

An Oregon judge has sided with the state of Oregon and the Army, ending a lawsuit by activists who challenged whether incineration was the best way to destroy mustard agent at the Umatilla Chemical Depot. Judge Michael Marcus of the...

Businesses are invited to visit the Umatilla Chemical Depot on Oct. 20 to see the buildings and property that could go up for sale when the site no longer is needed to store chemical weapons. That includes a complex of...

A field exercise is planned today near Hermiston along a portion of the TransCanada GTN System, a natural gas pipeline that extends from Canada to California. Gas Transmission Northwest, operator of the pipeline system in the Hermiston area, will be...

I-84 schools don't want central Oregon affiliation Jerry Ulmer, The Oregonian , September 29, 2009 11:23 a.m. Impassioned pleas from schools along the Interstate 84 corridor marked the final public testimony to the Oregon School Activities Association classification and districting...

Slip on your cowboy boots, dust off your Stetson and head for Hermiston's Blue Moon Saloon and Western Wine Festival on Saturday. It's the Hermiston Chamber of Commerce's annual wine and cheese event, and there is a western flair this...

The tribal fishermen apparently clung to their capsized boat for about six hours in the river near Crow Butte and were suffering from hypothermia, said Benton County sheriff's Lt...Sky Hood Yallup, 33, and Lester Brent Spencer, 44, both of Pendleton,...

An autopsy for Eric Chairez Sanchez is scheduled for today, said Sheriff Kenneth Matlack...The cause of death so far is undetermined, he said.      Showing: