Treasure Valley Reload Center officials are set to meet on Monday, April 21, to approve a final budget, construction timeline and scope of a potential sale of the rail center project and county-owned industrial land to a national railroad company.
Authorities recovered the body of a kayaker last week who had vanished over a month ago, according to the Malheur County Sheriff's Office.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley is heading to Ontario for a public town hall on Sunday, April 13 at Four Rivers Cultural Center at 4 p.m.
Crews are battling a fire that broke out at an onion shed in Ontario on Friday.
The Vale District Bureau of Land Management warned on Monday, March 10, of "dangerously high flows" and frigid water temperatures on the Owyhee River.
A kayaker who vanished in the Owyhee River on Saturday, March 1, is feared dead, according to authorities.
Malheur County is under another warning for what is expected to be minor flooding from Saturday to Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.
County leaders issued an emergency declaration on Wednesday, Feb.26, as the Malheur River remains at a historic major flood level. County officials requested Gov. Tina Kotek to declare an emergency to make resources available to the county.
Officials announced that all Vale schools would be closed Wednesday as emergency management officials monitor a levee along the Malheur River that protects the southeast portion of Vale, including the rodeo ground and schools.