Month: October 2012

October 7 – 13 th is National Fire Prevention Week and the Bend Fire Department is celebrating with an Open House event! Fire Prevention Week was…

Campfire Central Oregon is in need of funds, volunteers and even kids, and on Sunday, volunteers held a fund-raiser to raise that awareness. The…

This November, Bend Parks and Rec voters will decide if they want to pay for a $29 million bond measure. On Sunday, supporters of the measure wanted…

Homebrewers: How would you like to have your beer judged by professional brewmasters? That’s what happened at the first annual Deschutes…

Oregon is climbing in the ranks of states that are encouraging entrepreneurial activity. That’s according to a new analysis by the University…

Oregon Republicans from all 36 counties attended a state central committee meeting in Bend on Saturday. More than 100 GOP delegates, alternates,…

Thousands of people crowded downtown Bend Saturday for the second day of the 2012 Bend Fall Festival. Now in its 12th year, the annual celebration of…

Before the Oregon Ducks battled the Washington Huskies Saturday evening, a busload of Central Oregon Duck fans were pumped. The Central Oregon Duck…

Scientology has often been surrounded by controversy, often involving movie stars. But the latest attention-grabbing legal fight focuses on a Bend…

The Oregon secretary of state’s office reported late Friday it has learned that Oregonians statewide are receiving robocalls saying the voter…

The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners has completed its most recent recruitment process for the County Administrator — without success in…

The Oregon Education Investment Board (OEIB) will hold seven community forums, including one Oct. 30 in Bend, and a webinar at which stakeholders can…

U.S. troops have now been fighting in Afghanistan for 11 years. According to the latest polls, 60 percent of Americans want to bring troops home as…

Fire managers throughout Oregon are feeling the heat — or you could put it this way: Fall has arrived, but summer didn’t get the memo.…

The Rethink Waste Project kicks off this weekend with the opening of The Art of Recycling youth art project at the Bend Fall Festival. The Art of…

A Rural Tourism Studio is being offered in the newly created River Canyon Country (Madras, Prineville, Warm Springs, Terrebonne, and surrounding…

As of this weekend, the United States will have been involved for 11 years in a war in Afghanistan — a war that more Americans are questioning,…

Dams, locks and levees on waterways in the Northwest and across the nation are in bad shape, according to a new government report by a national panel…

Oregon health officials said Friday they are working with epidemiologists around the country to track cases of sudden kidney failure linked to…

The United States Postal Service is hiring temporary employees to work at mail processing facilities in Portland, Eugene, Salem, Medford and Bend…