Morrow County residents drove to Salem to meet with Gov. Tina Kotek’s staff to discuss the pollution in the area’s water.

In a region rife with contaminated wells due to nitrates, the Port of Morrow is usually restricted in how much wastewater it ...

Oregon’s second largest port is getting another exception to a water pollution permit it’s violated for much of the last two ...

Gov. Tina Kotek intervened Monday, Jan. 13, letting the Port of Morrow apply wastewater to low-risk fields in the Lower Umatilla Basin during the nongrowing season, when application ...

Governor Tina Kotek issued “a state of emergency due to risk of economic shut down,” that allows the Port of Morrow to ...

Nitrate pollution has worsened significantly in eastern Oregon over the past decade, according to a new analysis released by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. The report is the first ...

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek declared a state of emergency due to the risk of economic shutdown in Morrow and Umatilla Counties ...

The last time the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality compiled comprehensive data on nitrate ground pollution in the Lower Umatilla Basin was 2012. More than a decade later, Oregonians have ...

UMATILLA, Wash.- Oregon Governor Tina Kotek declares state of emergency for risk of economic shutdown in Morrow and Umatilla Counties.

State Rep. Greg Smith of Heppner is proposing adding two commissioners to the Port of Morrow Commission. Rep. Mark Owens of ...

The port will be allowed to spread nitrogen-contaminated wastewater on agricultural fields in an area with contaminated drinking water.