The Museum at Warm Springs kicks off its annual Membership Drive this week. This year’s Drive honors Warm Springs longtime Board of Directors member and ancestor Kenneth Smith. The Roundhouse Foundation is generously matching proceeds from new Museum memberships.
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A year after the Warm Springs Tribal Police Department’s roughly half-century-old jail was closed, amid COVID and other issues, the U.S. Interior Department has approved construction of a new facility, Police Chief Bill Elliott said Tuesday.
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Three drivers were taken to hospitals after an unsafe pass attempt led to a crash Sunday night on U.S. Highway 26 on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Oregon State Police said. One driver later was cited on DUII, assault and other charges.
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Warm Springs Fire and Safety is asking the community to keep an eye out for its stolen F-350 brush truck, stolen from the fire station bays early Thursday morning.
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The U.S. Senate passed a water infrastructure package Thursday that includes legislation by Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., to improve water quality and services for tribal communities in Oregon and nationwide. The Wyden and Merkley provisions will authorize $250 million for tribal water infrastructure projects, and will make sure that Native American tribes most in need will be prioritized.
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A Terrebonne woman was killed and four people were injured Thursday afternoon when the driver of an SUV apparently fell asleep at the wheel and collided head-on with a car on U.S. Highway 26 on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Oregon State Police reported.
Continue Reading A 23-year-old Warm Springs man was struck and killed in an apparent hit-and-run crash on U.S. Highway 101 in Tillamook County late Saturday night, Oregon State Police said, and they are looking for the driver of a pickup who left the scene.
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A fire that began in a carport spread to and destroyed a home in Warm Springs early Friday morning, officials said.
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The U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on Wednesday passed the Western Tribal Water Infrastructure Act, legislation introduced by Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., to improve water quality and services for tribal communities in Oregon and nationwide.
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Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said Friday that nine Oregon tribes will receive more than $10.5 million in affordable housing grants under the recently passed American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to help with the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Warm Springs police have identified two drivers killed Sunday when one pickup truck crossed the center line and collided head-on with another in a three-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 26 on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.
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A high-speed pursuit of a stolen pickup on Highway 26 began on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation on Monday and ended in Madras with a crash into several parked cars, a brief chase on foot and the arrest of the driver after he got out and ran, authorities said.
Continue Reading Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., reintroduced legislation Wednesday to help improve water quality and services for Oregon’s tribal communities, including the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, hit hard by recent water woes.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon released its first annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons program report on Friday, U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has really changed the way of living on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, according to Louie Pitt, Jr, director of government affairs and planning for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.
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Human remains discovered last month on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation apparently are those of a 58-year-old Warm Springs woman who has been the subject of an active search since she disappeared last July, tribal police said Monday.
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A Portland businessman killed in the spiraling, fiery crash of his twin-engine business jet on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation last month had tried but failed to gain certification to fly the plane, as he did that day – likely for the first time alone, federal investigators said Thursday.
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A fire Tuesday evening destroyed a home in the Sidwalter Flats neighborhood on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, but the residents escaped unhurt, authorities said.
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Three Warm Springs residents have been arrested on murder, robbery, car theft and conspiracy charges in the killing of a Redmond man whose body was found last August near U.S. Highway 26 northwest of Madras, Jefferson County Undersheriff Marc Heckathorn said Monday.
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The Oregon Health Authority has announced the appointment of 21 members to serve on a new Oversight and Accountability Council to oversee the implementation of Measure 110, the Drug Treatment and Recovery Act that went into effect Monday.
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