(The Enterprise/FILE) Finally, Malheur County isn’t ranked at the bottom when it comes to Covid. As of Friday, the county was just one of two in Oregon where federal authorities rated the community level of the coronavirus as “low.” Grant County was the other. Most Oregon counties still rank at[Read More…]

The Moderna injection is one of the Covid vaccines being used in Malheur County. (Liliana Frankel/The Enterprise) ONTARIO – The possibility Malheur County will return to more stringent Covid restrictions continues to grow as vaccinations – seen by officials as key to ending the pandemic – lag. Meanwhile, Covid cases[Read More…]

Covid numbers starting out the week of August 10th. (Kezia Setyawan/The Enterprise) Malheur County ranks third highest in the state with positive cases per capita. As the county enters midway through August, positive testing trends have continued to increase. School districts in the county have pivoted to online learning as[Read More…]

Owner Kat Hill and employee Rhannon Chavez stand next to the still closed pool table at the Sagebrush Saloon & BBQ in Vale. The arcade is open again through reservation (The Enterprise/Kezia Setyawan) RELATED COVERAGE: Local restaurants: Business close to usual after shutdown Kat Hill delivers the first order of[Read More…]

Cori Mowder wipes down each menu before handing them out to customers at the Plaza Inn Restaurant in Ontario (The Enterprise/Kezia Setyawan). ONTARIO – A line of people stands behind the “Please wait to be seated” sign at the Plaza Inn Restaurant during the Wednesday lunch rush hour. Although the[Read More…]

Angel Ortega, a student at Ontario Middle School, takes a selfie on a trip to the ocean. (Submitted photo) Since October, about a dozen students in Ontario Middle School’s Migrant Education Program have been meeting after school once a week to work on community service projects. The students, participating in[Read More…]

Tanya Navarrete, marketing director at Four Rivers Cultural Center, hands out masks and care kits at the center. The April 18 event was a collaboration of the center, Matsy’s Restaurant, Ontario Community Church and the volunteer group Mask Ontario Save Our City. (Yadira Lopez/Malheur Enterprise) ONTARIO – As COVID-19 continues[Read More…]

Parents, teachers and school superintendents will find out in early June how schools are expected to function this fall after months of being closed. Colt Gill, director of the Oregon Department of Education, said in an interview that the state expects school buildings to reopen in September. He said his[Read More…]

Health officials provide the one-day testing recently to give local authorities a better sense of the prevalence of COVID-19 in the community. (The Enterprise/Yadira Lopez) The Oregon Supreme Court on Saturday issued a deadline to the Baker County judge who this week granted a preliminary injunction nullifying Oregon governor’s emergency[Read More…]

Bailey Harrison and her market lamb Erwin. Harrison, a junior at Vale High School, has shown market lambs at the Malheur County Fair since the second grade. (The Enterprise/Yadira Lopez) VALE – Last summer was the first time in 11 years that Bailey Harrison didn’t cry when she sold her[Read More…]