Staff changes at Prineville Chamber of Commerce
Prineville Chamber of Commerce announced the resignation of Bill Gowen, who has served as Chamber CEO since 2010. Prineville native and local…
Continue ReadingPrineville Chamber of Commerce announced the resignation of Bill Gowen, who has served as Chamber CEO since 2010. Prineville native and local…
Continue ReadingWildfires have damaged thousands of acres of Oregon’s High Desert land this summer, and restoring it will be a prime topic at this week’s…
Continue ReadingOregon State Police and Wasco County officials are investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting around midnight Tuesdaymorning in the Dalles. The…
Continue ReadingAnother packed crowd of Sisters-area residents heard some hopeful news from the lines of the Pole Creek Fire on Monday evening, as the containment…
Continue ReadingThe recess bell rings out across an empty school yard as a normally chaotic playground stays empty at Sisters Elementary School. Smoke has blanketed…
Continue ReadingOn Thursday, Sept. 13, stakeholders throughout Deschutes County participated in a one-day workshop for the development of integrated strategies to…
Continue ReadingOn Saturday, Sept. 15th, about 130 motorcyclists delivered almost 1,800 teddy bears to the Bend, Prineville, Madras and Redmond hospitals. This was…
Continue ReadingA late fire season around the Northwest and Friday night thunderstorms have ignited new fires in Central Oregon, several on the Warm Springs Indian…
Continue ReadingWhen a wildfire breaks out in the national forest, forest rangers sometimes risk their lives leading people out of the woods and back to safety. But…
Continue ReadingFormer COCC instructor Thomas Bray looked on in a blue jail uniform, hands and feet shackled – his first court appearance out of a suit and tie –…
Continue ReadingA heating unit in an unoccupied guest room at Bend’s Shilo Inn ignited curtains in a blaze Monday morning that fortunately went out on its own,…
Continue ReadingThe state of Oregon and HomeSource of NeighborImpact announced new resources Monday to help Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook county homeowners at risk…
Continue ReadingA 32-year-old Redmond woman was killed early Monday when her car left the Old Bend-Redmond Highway and struck a tree head-on, Deschutes County…
Continue ReadingAtelier 6000 is a professional printmaking studio and gallery in Bend but on Sunday the art was out in the parking lot and be steamrolled —…
Continue ReadingReed Market Rd. and Mt. Washington Dr. are scheduled for asphalt overlay as part of the city of Bend’s 2012 Street Maintenance Program. The…
Continue ReadingEergency officials from Deschutes County, the city of Bend, St Charles Medical Center and personnel from TransCanada Corp. will conduct a joint…
Continue ReadingThe American Red Cross said Sunday it has opened an aid station at the Sisters Elementary School gymnasium to provide a place for individuals to get…
Continue ReadingIt was supposed to be a pleasant overnight outing in the Central Oregon woods on a warm, late-summer weekend. But a week after being trapped by a…
Continue ReadingThe smoke from the Pole Creek Fire didn’t stop many residents from attending the final day of the annual Sisters Fall Street Festival on…
Continue ReadingCrook County sheriff’s deputies said they responded to two crashes within a half-hour Saturday evening that sent three people to area hospitals…
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