Month: March 2012

A large fuel spill following a crash Monday of a double-tanker truck closed state Highway 58 four miles west of Oakridge for several hours, ODOT officials said. Oregon State Police said the highway reopened to one lane of travel around 7 p.m., with flaggers and a pilot car in place, taking motorists through in alternating

More than 800,000 Oregonians last January relied on food stamps to put meals on their table. That’s 22 percent of the state. An alarming percentage to most, but officials aren’t surprised by the growing number of people needing help putting food on the table. It’s the highest number ever recorded by the Oregon Department of

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The search continued Monday for a man who wore a hooded sweatshirt with a red bandana over his face and used a handgun to hold up the Newport Avenue Market on Bend’s Westside Sunday night, then eluded police who converged on the area to search for him. The armed robbery, which occurred around 9:30 p.m.,

You can have a ranch with lots of animals to feed and chores to do — and still, one faithful, never-wandering dog you?ve loved and enjoyed for a decade can wander off one day and leave you searching for days, in tears and seemingly in vain, for that wagging tail and happy face. And sometimes,

For anyone dealing with a loved one who has Alzheimer?s, dementia or other mental challenge, there can be a real fear that the loved one could wander off and need help — and not be found in time. Now, a new program is helping rescuers find these patients fast. Waving a small antenna in a

Crook County commissioners will put most of the $5.6 million paid by Apple for its data center land into a savings account it hopes to use to pay off debt. The rest of the money will go into the county’s general fund and a contingency account. “There were things over these three, almost four years

A new way to look at Bend. That’s the goal of a new tourism attraction called The Bend Trolley, set to kick off tours this summer. Friday, the owner said the idea was to find a way to showcase Central Oregon’s beauty in a relaxing, fun way. Blake Stamos got the idea after visiting California

Sifting through news articles, it’s easy to tell that Jude Anders-Gilbert has gone through a lot. Diagnosed six years ago with Stage 4 colon cancer, she was basically told to get her affairs in order. “It’s the infection that has stopped me from healing,” Anders-Gilbert said Saturday. She battles on though, working at her antique

Russian River Brewing out of Santa Rosa, Calif., releases Pliny the Younger, a triple IPA, only once a year. The beer goes to only select places in the Northwest and along the West Coast. The Platypus Pub and the Brew Shop were lucky enough to get a barrel of the beer. Early Sunday, they held

Bend-O Bento Japanese Kitchen is marking its opening with a relief dinner Sunday, to help raise funds for victims of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan a year ago. The new restaurant’s two owners came together last year at the Common Table in Bend for a successful feast. They then decided to open up

The Coast Guard has released the names of four people presumed dead after their fishing trawler disappeared off the Washington coast after sending a distress signal. They are 42-year-old Dave Nichols and 38-year-old Jason Bjaranson of Warrenton, Ore.; 25-year-old Chris Langel of Kaukauna, Wis.; and 19-year-old Luke Jensen of Ilwaco, Wash. The Coast Guard suspended

More and more teens are taking up the habit of smoking, according to a new report by the U.S. Surgeon General. Nationwide more than 3 million high school students and 600,000 sand middle school students smoke cigarettes In Oregon, 20 teenagers take up the habit every day, and it’s a statistic Central Oregon health officials

Three small brushfires in a matter of minutes along Highway 97 between Redmond and Bend kept firefighters busy Thursday afternoon while authorities looked for a pickup and trailer that apparently sparked them, The first two fires broke out around 4:30 p.m. near Cinder Butte and the O’Neil Highway. Then, minutes later, another fire was reported

While love is a beautiful thing, it?s also a force of nature. For Stephen Trono, the intense love of his wife and family is the only reason he?s alive today. (911 call:) Dispatcher: what’s going on out there? Caller: my mom just accidentally shot my dad. Several years before that early July morning in 2010,

An intoxicated Bend man riding a mountain bike down the middle of a southeast Bend road while not wearing a helmet was critically injured Thursday when he repeatedly swerved into the path of an SUV and they eventually collided, police said. Around 4:20 p.m., officers responded to the reported collision on Centennial Boulevard near Woodland

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Parked just across from the Ponderosa Elementary School playground is the Christian-based Good News Club trailer, one of 19 clubs in the region. “The ultimate goal of the Good News Club is to have every child that is enrolled, that attends is to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ,? Missionary Co-Director Terry Edwards said recently.

A facelift for Galveston Avenue. That’s what one Bend group said Thursday they’re hoping for, but finding the money won’t be easy. After months of work, the group presented its ideas and goals to the city council, who urged them to look for grant money. A lack of parking, no tree-lined streets and spread-out businesses

After more than two hours of public testimony and council debate, Bend city councilors voted 6-1 Wednesday night to sharply scale back the city’s controversial $68 million surface water project, by more than half, and focus on replacing an aging water pipeline first. The move means the city will wait and reconsider a hydroelectric project