Kaylee Birt has been missing since Friday, April 4, 2025. She was last seen at The Fields Store, with her car which is a gold 2008 Chevy Malibu with plate ORE GW21073. She was making her way from Klamath Falls, to Shenandoah, Iowa and was last seen wearing a green

Modified Local Events and Relief Efforts Announced The Harney County Migratory Bird Festival planning team has made the difficult decision to cancel the 2025 event, originally scheduled for Thursday-Sunday, April 10–13, due to ongoing and potential flooding across the region. This decision follows severe flood impacts throughout the community, including neighborhoods on

The federal grazing fee for 2025 remains $1.35 per animal unit month for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and $1.35 per head month for lands managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service.  An animal unit month or head month — treated as equivalent measures

The Harney County Court convened on Thursday, Jan. 23, to sign letters urging Senator’s Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, and Representative Cliff Bentz to secure funding for the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) program.  This crucial program provides essential funding to rural communities for critical services such as infrastructure, education, conservation projects,

In some places the snow water equivalent is more than 300 percent of normal Lauren Brown for Burns Times-Herald When the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual winter weather outlook in October, it predicted a slowly developing La Nina weather pattern, which would mean wetter than average weather for Oregon