Month: June 2011

With over $1 million worth of sought-after cost-of-living raises just one of several issues, Deschutes County employees locked in negotiations as…

Tourists will be making their way in and out of Central Oregon for the Fourth of July weekend, a traditional trip for many, and a slight dip in gas…

Oregon lawmakers approved legislation Thursday that will help fund the purchase of a permanent building for Oregon State University-Cascades graduate…

It’s a touchy subject: Whether those who get lost should be charged with such rescues. Search efforts, by and large, are done by volunteers,…

No maps, no compass, 13 hours lost in the woods. “They were just going for a short hike, they got turned around and couldn’t find their…

What was supposed to be a fun summer raft trip on the seemingly placid Deschutes River in Bend quickly turned life-threatening Wednesday when a…

It’s our national bird, the sacred symbol of the United States of America — and now one of them is in the hands of Central Oregon…

Deschutes County sheriff?s deputies are seeking the public?s help in finding a man who dumped a white or milky-colored substance into an irrigation…

“Praise the FSM”: These are the words written, spray-painted and tagged across not one, but two churches on opposite sides of Bend Sunday…

To most people, there is nothing humorous about crime, or religious beliefs. But a group with a name many would find amusing is very serious about…

A California couple staying on the fourth floor of The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend had a rude and unusual awakening early Saturday — a man…

Officers called to a domestic dispute at a northeast Bend home early Saturday made no arrests in that matter, but did take three people into custody…

More than 30 county district attorneys along with Oregon’s U.S. Attorney, Dwight Holton, all signed a notice warning dispensaries they’d…

A Bend grocery store has found itself the victim of a cheesy heist. The brazen crime against Gouda and bleu cheese happened Tuesday night in the wine…

Around town, he’s known as Cheeto, and he’s called this corner on Greenwood and 27th “home” for nearly two years. “It…