Month: January 2013

“Ban the Bag Bend” is a campaign that kicked off last week to ban plastic bags at grocery checkouts. The movement is gaining steam after…

KPOV, 88.9 fm has received a $20,000 grant from the Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) to hire a part-time development director, formalize a major…

For many, it was a relaxing day off — but for hundreds in Central Oregon, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was a busy “day on.”…

Bend resident Dr. Myrlie Evers-Williams delivered the invocation prayer during the president’s inauguration Monday. But she wasn’t the…

On the heels of a successful Medicare enrollment period that resulted in more than 16,000 new customers throughout Oregon and Idaho, PacificSource…

Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) on Monday condemned the terrorist attack in Algeria that claimed the lives of three Americans, including Baker County…

Right off Highway 20 between Bend and Sisters sits Bendistillery. The Cascades provide more than just a special sight for tourists visiting the…

It’s not all that unusual during the winter for fog to cause some flight delays or cancellations at Redmond Airport, but Saturday night was a…

Two Springfield women were treated at a Prineville hospital but escaped serious injury Sunday afternoon when their SUV struck a rock embankment and…

A 16-year-old Beaverton teen was shot to death, her body found along a highway east of Tillamook late Friday night — and the Newport man…

A 13-year-old Klamath Falls boy was seriously injured Sunday afternoon in the crash of his off-road motorcycle on a trail off George Millican Road,…

University of Oregon Athletics Director Rob Mullens announced Sunday the appointment of Mark Helfrich as the 32nd head football coach in the…

Two people aboard a Bend flight school’s small plane that encountered landing gear problems walked away unhurt from an emergency landing on its…

With every new year comes new trends. whether it be in fashion, music or workout styles. For 2012, the workout style of CrossFit took gyms by storm,…

Torched beams, ash and a few albums are all that’s left after fire tore through a Prineville-area family’s home Friday night.…

Starting next month, St. Charles Hospice will offer grief support groups in Madras and the Warm Springs Reservation. Losing a loved one is one of the…

The nationwide flu epidemic had people lining up in Bend Friday, rolling up their sleeves to get their flu shots. The Deschutes County Health…

On Tuesday, January 22, crews from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad will be repairing the railroad crossing on La Pine State Recreation Road,…

Dr. Nicole MacTavish, Principal of Redmond High School, announced Friday that the Redmond High School JROTC Program was awarded a $10,000 endowment…

Hydrologists, scientists and engineers from across the West descended on Central Oregon to learn survival skills to trek into the backcountry. They…