Eastern Oregon counties seek federal relief
Farm service agencies in Eastern Oregon's Morrow and Gilliam counties are applying for disaster relief, because unseasonably cool temperatures in the spring delayed the wheat crop. more >
State OK’s world’s largest wind farm
State energy officials have approved a plan that would make Gilliam and Morrow counties in northeastern Oregon home to the world’s largest wind farm. more >
Snack Alliance is hiring
Thirty new jobs are expected in Hermiston as Snack Alliance expands its line of healthy snacks. more >
Boardman mill to create 85 new permanent jobs
A Boardman tree grower has received $250,000 from state lottery funds to build and purchase parts for a state-of-the-art sawmill in Morrow County, a project that’s expected to bring 85 permanent full-time jobs to the area. more >
Office of Rural Policy felled by state budget ax
With hope and fanfare, the Office of Rural Policy was created in 2004 by executive order of Gov. Ted Kulongoski. It died last month with no fanfare and dashed hopes after the Legislature refused to fund it. more >
Sequential eyes Port of Umatilla for future plant
Sequential-Pacific Biodiesel hasn’t even finished expanding capacity at its Salem plant, and it is already looking into building another factory at the Port of Umatilla. more >
East gets solar projects
Not only is the planned solar-power project in Eastern Oregon going to be a first for Vancouver-based Columbia Energy Partners, it also will be Oregon’s largest when it’s completed at the end of the year. more >
Demand and the dollar help spike wheat prices
After a rough 12-year slog with more drought than profit, Oregon wheat growers are finally back in the black, thanks to record wheat prices that are not expected to drop any time soon. more >
Lake County modernizes economic base
“Adapting” might best describe Oregon’s outback, Lake County. The rugged county in south-central Oregon had the same number of jobs in mid-2007 as it did in 1990. more >
