Baker City

A bacterial illness has spread through Baker County’s biggest herd of bighorn sheep, but a state wildlife biologist said it won’t be clear until later this year how severe the

Global warming has already resulted in more forest fires out West, according to the latest National Climate Assessment. The future could see more of the country burn.

At least a handful of sheep have died over the past month or so from pneumonia caused by a strain of bacteria that had not previously been found in bighorns anywhere in Oregon