Month: October 2013

Cascade Bancorp, the holding company for Bank of the Cascades, and Home Federal Bancorp, Inc., the holding company for Home Federal Bank, announced a…

Does giving a five minutes speech to a big crowd sound fun? How about having 20 PowerPoint slides that change every 15 seconds? Then Ignite Bend is…

Four people were arrested at Bend motels this week in a pair of unrelated prostitution cases, one a 17-year-old Madras teen who police said was…

Forest Service fuels specialists plan to conduct two prescribed fires Thursday on the Deschutes National Forest and three on the Ochoco National…

A sold-out crowd of 425 Bend Venture Conference attendees last Friday heard the pitches of five Launch Stage finalists and six Concept Stage…

Crews have completed a month-long effort to clean up a 5,000-gallon fuel tanker spill following a rollover tanker crash on Highway 26 on the Warm…

An Albany couple was injured Wednesday morning, one critically, when their car left Oregon Hwy. 22E and crashed just east of Detroit in Marion…

Fifth-graders at Redmond’s Sage Elementary School learned a few tools Wednesday to deal with bullying. Cadets from the Oregon National…

An Oregon State Police arson investigator was called in to help look for the cause of a dozen small, suspicious fires that broke out within 2 1/2…

It’s a hot commodity: You don’t see rental signs around Central Oregon very often. “A lot of them are renting even before…

A Portland man was killed Tuesday afternoon when his car rear-ended an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife worker’s pickup truck on Highway…

The prescribed fire that was planned for Wednesday about 10 miles northwest of La Pine, in the vicinity of Round Mountain has been cancelled due to…

The annual Children’s Expedition Luncheon was held last week in support of MountainStar Family Relief Nursery’s child abuse and neglect…

Bend police said this week they are investigating more than two years’ worth of storage unit thefts around town. The only details police are…

High school parties are popular scenes in many Hollywood blockbusters. So in the real world, how big really is the high school drinking scene?…

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is on his “Listening to Oregon’s Future Tour,” visiting 11 high schools across the state. Students in Bend…

The flow of water out of Wickiup Reservoir a month ago was 934 cubic feet per second (cfs). Since then, it’s been lowered slowly to 32cfs. That…

A man carrying a large sack used a rock to smash his way into Bend’s Westside liquor store early Monday morning and grabbed about 30 bottles of…

The first alligator snapping turtle found in the wild in Eastern Oregon was removed from Prineville Reservoir last week, the Oregon Department of…

You can donate blood, volunteer time and contribute funds critical to disaster relief. But did you know that you can donate a vehicle in support of…