Historically, the tiny town of Sumpter has attracted tourists for its rich mining history, museum, mountain trails and Old West flair. Now, tourists have a new reason to visit the community of about ...

SUMPTER, Ore. — The beauty of traveling Oregon’s back roads and byways is the unexpected treasure that you may find along the way – not just the scenery, but interesting lessons about Oregon’s past.

Northeast Oregon’s Powder River is a small cool, quiet and refreshing stream, but not so long ago, it was a river under siege. It’s a landscape where monstrous gold-dredging machines ravaged the river ...

The pictures we conjure of gold mining are usually cartoonish – old prospectors in floppy hats, panning creeks or working away with a pickaxe. Rarely do we imagine anything like the Sumpter Valley ...

A storybook Christmas comes to life as this small-town, all-volunteer railroad fires up their antique locomotives; Cascades Wolverine Project aims to support wolverine recovery in the Cascade ...

Sumpter is a city in Baker County, Oregon, with a population of 187. According to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, 97.30% of residents identify as white, 0.00% as Black or ...

This morning we left Starkey and rode along the Grande Ronde River valley. It was a frigid but unbelievably gorgeous start to the day. I couldn’t resist joining the many other riders that stopped on a ...

Sumpter, before all else, is a gold town, the center of one of Oregon's richest strikes. Now it's a town of about 170 in the shadow of the Elkhorn Mountains 30 miles west of Baker City. Slouched along ...

BAKER COUNTY, Ore. -- An arrest has been made in connection with the Thursday shooting death of a Hermiston man. The Baker County District Attorney says Daniel Myers of Sumpter, Oregon, is facing ...

Jack Vincent Smith, 91, of Sumpter, passed away on Monday, October 26, 2020 at his daughter’s residence. Jack was born on January 14, 1929, in North Branch, Kansas, to Claude and Ruth (Calahan) ...