Month: August 2013

School is about to start here in Central Oregon, and filling your kids’ lunch boxes with the right foods can keep them healthy and alert.…

Crews from several agencies tackled and contained a grass fire that threatened several homes north of Madras Wednesday afternoon. Jefferson County…

Bend police on Tuesday released an artist’s composite drawing of a man believed to have committed a string of four bank robberies over the past…

Dr. Charles Abasa-Nyarko has been named vice president for instruction at Central Oregon Community College. Abasa-Nyarko, who assumed his new role in…

Equine Outreach, Inc., announced Wednesday that they have been awarded a $20,000 grant from the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention…

Central Oregon Auto Value is offering $30 oil changes with full proceeds benefiting two Central Oregon nonprofits. Saving Grace and FAN are the…

Gleaning is the practice of gathering food after farmers have harvested their fields. This good Samaritan practice is making a comeback in Central…

Initial-attack crews continue to tackle small new fires popping up around Central Oregon, most holdovers from recent lightning, as a threat of more…

Bend-La Pine Schools Superintendent Ron Wilkinson announced one of the largest financial gifts from an individual in district history at…

The B&B Complex fire that burned more than 90,000 acres in August 2003, was not only unprecedented in size but shed light on new ways the Forest…

Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty said Monday he strongly objected to the state’s settlement of a $22 million federal lawsuit…

A report of a body seen floating in the Crooked River Tuesday afternoon triggered a recovery effort that took more than seven hours and over…

Bend Police Chief Jeff Sale said Tuesday he can’t remember the last time the department’s radio systems were upgraded. And that’s a…

It turns out that Bend voters won’t be the only ones facing a proposed room tax increase on the November ballot. Deschutes County commissioners…

An ODOT maintenance crew discovered a fatal motorcycle crash along Hwy. 140E that killed a 70-year-old man with ties to La Pine, Oregon State Police…

In Sunriver, only three firefighters are on duty at a time — and firefighters say this summer, they’re busier than ever. Bellatazza…

Student teaching at Oregon’s public colleges should be strengthened, professional development for teachers should be expanded and licensing…

After weeks of work, the Culver School District has decided to send an $8.8 million bond measure to the voters. Monday night at a special meeting,…

It was a fire of truly historic proportions — and Monday marked the 10th anniversary of the start of what became the massive B&B Complex of…

One person received a minor injury Monday morning in a car-pickup collision at Highway 20 and Ward Road east of Bend, Oregon State Police reported.…