Month: October 2012

Central Oregon specialty crop producers and food processors will benefit from a recent grant provided by Oregon Department of Agriculture to…

Golfers from throughout Central Oregon scored hundreds of birdies to help raise over $23,000 for MountainStar Family Relief Nursery’s Birdies 4…

Alabama has run its streak of weeks at No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll to eight, the longest stay atop the rankings by the…

An English Bulldog puppy that was taken from an Oregon City couple at gunpoint has been found safe after police arrested a suspect in Vancouver…

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber told the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong Friday that increasing the state’s future trade of products and…

Gresham police announced late Friday that they had found the body of Whitney Heichel on Larch Mountain, and they had arrested Jonathan Daniel Holt of…

Outdoor debris burning within Deschutes County Rural Fire Protection District #2 will open at sunrise on Saturday morning, October 20 th . Outdoor…

Hundreds of people packed Living Hope Christian Church in Madras Thursday for the Statewide Marijuana Summit. Several speakers offered insight on…

Election ballots began showing up in mailboxes on Friday, and in all Central Oregon counties, voter registration is up from four years ago.…

The Central Oregon District of the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) announced that wildfire season will end on Saturday. The district previously…

Opponents of Bend’s controversial surface water improvement project expressed appreciation Wednesday for a federal judge’s preliminary…

Hertz Car Sales and Hertz Rental Centers are encouraging customers this October to give hope to kids battling cancer and other catastrophic childhood…

Middle and high school youth in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties may now apply for INSPIRE (Imagine, Navigate, Share, Practice, Influence,…

Eight rifles and shotguns were among items stolen from a Culver home by burglars who got in through an unlocked window, Jefferson County…

Central Oregon’s 2012 Sustainability Awards were announced by The Environmental Center Thursday night at a celebration at the Cascade Culinary…

With nearly 400 nurses nominated, there remain 183 finalists for 2012 Oregon Nurse of the Year — 19 of them live in Central Oregon. For the…

With significant moisture recorded across Central Oregon over the last week and more forecast for the weekend, Deschutes National Forest fuels…

Nearly 5,000 Pacific Power customers in northeast Bend lost power Thursday for about 45 minutes afternoon, knocking out traffic lights and leaving…

The Board of Directors of Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Oregon announced Wednesday to the parents of Ariel Glen Apartments in southeast Bend its…

Firefighters said Thursday they have declared containment of the more than month-old Pole Creek Fire southwest of Sisters, a nearly 27,000-acre blaze…