Malheur County is on the brink of becoming a ‘news desert’ as local papers close, change hands

What’s missing from Malheur County’s budget?

VALE — In the proposed 2025-26 Malheur County budget, there are two line items under revenue which have been left blank. In order to make up for the loss in revenue, County Administrator Lorinda DuBois had to trim $1.5 million…

Malheur County is on the brink of becoming a ‘news desert’ as local papers close, change hands

The Malheur Enterprise in Vale shutters while the Argus Observer in Ontario explores a sale.

Say it Ain't So

Another historic Oregon newspaper is calling it quits, and this one stings. The Malheur Enterprise, originally founded in 1909, printed its last edition on May 7. The paper came to notoriety a decade ago, when Les Zaitz and his wife Scotta Callister purchased the newspaper. Zaitz is a renowned investigative journalist who had the journalism gene. Raised in Keizer, Zaitz began writing at his...