The Harney County Sheriff’s Office have confirmed that the remains discovered by volunteer searchers on Saturday, May 3, 2025, have been positively identified as belonging to Kaylee Birt, who had been missing since April 4, 2025. The family has been notified.  The Harney County Sheriff’s Office would like to express their

Kaylee Birt has been missing since Friday, April 4, 2025. She was last seen at The Fields Store, with her car which is a gold 2008 Chevy Malibu with plate ORE GW21073. She was making her way from Klamath Falls, to Shenandoah, Iowa and was last seen wearing a green

Modified Local Events and Relief Efforts Announced The Harney County Migratory Bird Festival planning team has made the difficult decision to cancel the 2025 event, originally scheduled for Thursday-Sunday, April 10–13, due to ongoing and potential flooding across the region. This decision follows severe flood impacts throughout the community, including neighborhoods on

The federal grazing fee for 2025 remains $1.35 per animal unit month for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and $1.35 per head month for lands managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service.  An animal unit month or head month — treated as equivalent measures