By Les Zaitz The Enterprise VALE – The two-story brick building once home to the Golden Slipper nightclub collapsed into one of Vale’s main streets Monday afternoon, apparently yet another victim of heavy snows. No one was injured when about half of the building caved in on itself, spilling debris[Read More…]

Snow piles up at the day use area by the ice-jammed river in Ontario. By Pat Caldwell and John L. Braese The Enterprise Snow-slicked roads, blizzard conditions and numbing cold challenge local emergency responders, but agency officials say their crews are pressing on to reach residents in need. With the[Read More…]

A farm rig sits inside a shop that caved in on Jantz Farms east of Vale last week. (Malheur Enterprise/John L. Braese) By John L. Braese and Pat Caldwell The Enterprise As many as 100 buildings across Malheur County suffered serious damage in recent weeks because of snow loads, authorities[Read More…]

A state Transportation Department truck makes another pass to clear U.S. 26 near Ironside on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2016. (Malheur Enterprise/Les Zaitz) By Les Zaitz, John L. Braese, and Pat Caldwell The Enterprise The most destructive winter storm to ever hit Malheur County continued to exact a heavy toll this[Read More…]

The Enterprise VALE — A blaze that erupted at Monday night consumed a three-story house and required help from five area fire departments. The home at 4037 Alder Road northwest of Vale, owned by Dave and Kerri Wenger, was destroyed, said Vale Fire Chief Jess Tolman said. The home was[Read More…]

Downtown Vale on Wednesday, Jan. 18. (Malheur Enterprise/Les Zaitz) News in a disaster can’t wait a week. That’s why our news crew – the entire crew, in fact – worked so hard in recent days to keep you up to date. The Malheur Enterprise, of course, publishes once a week.[Read More…]

(Susan Barton for the Malheur Enterprise) People are working twice as hard to get half as much done as winter throttles Malheur County. We collectively seem to be like a car stuck on ice – our engines are gunning but progress seems slow. As a result, a certain edginess is[Read More…]