ONTARIO — With two months to go for the Nov. 6 elections, the ballot for Ontario’s mayoral and city council races is set. Voters will decide between four candidates for mayor and seven candidates for three city council seats. People may have already seen campaign signs posted around town. Ontario’s[Read More…]

Broken headstones awaited cemetery visitors after the May vandalism at Hilltop Memorial Cemetery. (Enterprise file photo) NYSSA – Leads in a vandalism case at a local cemetery more than three months ago are going cold, leaving area law enforcement officials frustrated. The Malheur County Sheriff’s Office and the Nyssa Police[Read More…]

VALE – The name of the horse was Big Sky and Dave Eyler already knew the animal was going to be a challenge. That day in 1987 at a college rodeo in Haines, Eyler still felt his chances were good to score high and help his team from Eastern Oregon[Read More…]

Victor Dunkelberger, 33, of Rocklin, Calif., died Aug. 11 south of Rome on U.S. 95. An Army combat veteran, Dunkelberger was devoted to his young daughter and family. (Photo courtesy of Jason Dunkelberger). VALE – He was patriotic and wanted to become a policeman but what really mattered to Victor[Read More…]

Tessa Winebarger reflects back on her young political career as a member of the Ontario City Council. Winebarger urged voters – and especially young city residents – to get involved in local politics. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell). ONTARIO – Just months after graduating from high school, Tessa Winebarger was on her[Read More…]

Customers line up outside Hotbox Farms, a retail marijuana store in Huntington before it opens. (The Enterprise/Jayme Fraser) HUNTINGTON – Marijuana has become the largest business in this remote Oregon community. Its two retailers of recreational marijuana last year logged 370,000 transactions worth $14 million, according to state regulators. They[Read More…]

VALE – The Vale Grange will be hosting a dance this Saturday, August 11 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the newly restored Grange building. The event is the second of its kind since the Grange’s grand reopening last month and is part of a reoccurring dance series. The dances[Read More…]

Andy Bentz, secretary of the Owyhee Basin Stewardship Coalition, talks about a white paper released by his organization that outlines a new blueprint to manage federal lands in the county. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell) VALE – Winter still gripped Malheur County at the tail end of 2016 when the Owyhee Basin[Read More…]

MalheurCAN!, an Ontario pro-marijuana group, turned in 1,860 petition signatures Monday to place an initiative on the November ballot to lift the city’s ban on recreational marijuana sales. (The Enterprise/File). ONTARIO – The local group leading the push to lift a ban on recreational marijuana sales took a big step[Read More…]

VALE – The Malheur Enterprise was cited for “pure journalistic excellence” when a report on Anthony Montwheeler was named the state’s “Best Story of the Year” by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. The investigative report – “Deadly Decisions” – revealed Montwheeler’s history as a man treated for 20 years as[Read More…]