Month: August 2012

On Friday, August 17 and Saturday, August 18, the Bend Fire Department Historical Society will hold its’ 4th annual garage sale. Help from the…

More than a week after he was confronted by two masked gunmen who smashed jewelry cases, took handmade jewelry items and fled, a downtown Redmond…

Bend’s Tower Theatre has hosted many special events over the years, but never one quite like this — a packed crowd watching a hometown…

When Mitch Modin was younger, all he dreamed about was becoming a professional basketball player. Now, his dreams have shifted, as he hopes to…

Sections of Brookswood Blvd., Purcell Blvd. and Butler Market Rd. are scheduled for pavement restoration work as part of the City of Bend 2012 Street…

After a year-long investigation, three simultaneous drug raids in Bend on Wednesday morning, a fourth later at a storage unit and other raids out of…

A log truck driven by a Prineville man tipped onto its side on a curve on Hwy. 197 south of The Dalles Thursday morning and its load of logs broke…

Bindi was one of the lucky ones — a dog adopted into a new family from the Humane Society of Central Oregon. But Bindi is a pit bull, and her…

On a stretch of Highway 97 just south of Gilchrist, a memorial sign will soon go up, the first in the state of Oregon east of the Cascades, honoring…

Oregon Labor and Industries Commissioner Brad Avakian announced Thursday a settlement of civil rights charges against Typhoon!, Inc., which has been…

In 2008, 10 days into her internship at Chimps Inc. in Tumalo, Kristen Howard was mauled by Kimie – a 120-pound chimpanzee. The…

Redmond-based St. Vincent de Paul announced Thursday that it has been selected as one of 500 nonprofit finalists in Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good…

There was a fiery scene Monday at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California. A huge plume of toxic black smoke could be seen as far as 10…

What if you couldn’t even crawl? Or had the hardest time putting together words to form a sentence? What if all the other kids around you were…

Nearly 400 firefighters held the lines Wednesday on the more than 1,300-acre Geneva Fire near Lake Billy Chinook, pushing it to 80 percent…

Many people use yoga as a way to clear their minds and stay in good shape. One local high school football team is taking advantage of its health and…

Tumalo Reservoir Road south of Tumalo was closed for about four hours Wednesday afternoon as firefighters worked to control a brush fire that was…

These days, it seems you can do anything on your smartphone including checking your health. From finding out your melanoma risk to even checking your…

A Crook County man was arrested on several charges Tuesday night, accused of firing shotgun blasts at three teens he thought were poaching deer on…

One member of a family sleeping in their southwest Redmond apartment awoke to find a fire and got everyone out Wednesday morning – a good thing,…