Month: March 2012

Two more cougars ? a mother and son ? were killed in a neighborhood east of Sisters late last week, bringing the total to five killed as they stayed…

As the Redmond School District looks to put a policy in place about texting between students and teachers, the court of public opinion is weighing in…

Some of the roughly 360 workers losing their jobs at T-Mobile’s Redmond call center could find a similar job in Bend this spring, as TRG…

What do you have planned for Spring Break with the kids? The High Desert Museum south of Bend has a suggestion and it has something do with fiery,…

The Target store on Bend’s north side celebrated a grand milestone with a complete renovation, and it reopened Sunday. After three months of…

Col. Lee Ellis, a prisoner of war for more than five years when his plane was shot down. Ellis is now founder and president of Leadership Freedom,…

The rumbling sound of motorcycles from the Patriot Guard led Saturday’s funeral procession for 26-year-old Air Force First Lt. Justin Wilkens,…

A seniors apartment building in the small community of Fort Rock burned to the ground in a fast-moving fire late Friday afternoon, but all the…

Under gray skies, with snow flurries swirling in the chilled wind, a Bend family marked a somber homecoming Thursday afternoon as a military escort…

Thousands of people in Central Oregon own at least one dog, but Bend Police Chief Jeff Sale says only a small portion actually pay for a dog license.…

Hundreds of new jobs could be up for grabs as the state Department of Corrections has plans to finally begin use of a long-mothballed medium-security…

The latest storm moved on and the skies turned sunny for much of Central Oregon Thursday morning, but the danger was far from over as wet streets…

About 350 people filled a Bend meeting room Wednesday night for a rare, if not unprecedented public meeting called by Mt. Bachelor to both state…

A complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board against St. Charles Health System by the Service Employees International Union Local 49…

A big decision and many smaller ones face the Bend Park and Rec Board as they consider whether to put a $30 million to $40 million bond measure on…

Two men whose car was stopped at a northwest Redmond intersection late last week face drug charges, one involving heroin trafficking, drug agents…

In the blink of an eye, John Hale lost his younger brother. He knows Dean is resting in peace. Now he’s focusing all his faith on Patty,…

Bend police warned Central Oregonians on Tuesday to be on the lookout for Internet and phone scams, as several have been reported over the past few…

The High Desert welcomed the official start of spring Tuesday with a late, if selective blast of winter: a blustery, powerful storm that dumped a…

Images Salon, which has been in Bend for 28 years, held a fund-raiser Sunday for Noel Aponte, who i friends with the owner, Pam Walker. Aponte lived…