Month: February 2014

Big changes are coming to NewsChannel 21’s Local Alert Weather Center as we upgrade our current weather system to TruVu Max! TruVu Max is a…

Nationwide, organic egg shortages caused by a shortage in organic chicken feed are driving up prices for farmers and consumers. The shortage has left…

OSU-Cascades has released the first round of renderings of what the new four-year campus could look like. At a public meeting Thursday night, the…

Tobaccoless cigarettes called e-cigarettes are gaining popularity in this country. Health experts say e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking, but…

The Sunriver Music Festival is now offering more “Friends of the Festival” membership benefits. Friends of the Festival members will…

PacifiCorp will lower Mirror Pond water levels in downtown Bend next week to facilitate another inspection of the hydroelectric dam, this time by a…

The Bend Police Department Citizen’s Academy has received recognition as a national and regional model and continues to be a highly popular…

Many Bend backyards don’t have much snow left in them – but two had enough to find shoe prints in the snow, which led to a transient arrested…

Law enforcement agencies from Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties joined the state of Oregon in a 14-day traffic enforcement blitz dedicated to…

When the people at Crescent Creek Church in La Pine learned that 71% of La Pine Elementary and 86% of Rosland Elementary kids were on the free or…

Freezing fog and slick roads prompted Jefferson County and Culver schools to open two hours late Friday — two of the districts not affected by…

It’s the latest push for home-grown energy production: the Deschutes National Forest has completed an environmental assessment for more…

Personal care aides: an industry not hurting for business. “We’re constantly hiring, so every Tuesday we hire and do an…

One of the most noticeable changes is that calories will be larger and in a more prominent position on the label. This will make it much easier to…

A Portland couple escaped serious injury Thursday afternoon when their car left Oregon Hwy. 22 east of Detroit and plunged into the shallow waters of…

As the debate over trapping continues ahead of a possible 2016 ballot measure to ban the long-time practice, Oregon State Police said Thursday they…

At the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services Forensics Lab in Ashland, a crack team of forensic scientists analyze evidence from around the world and…

As more pot shops sprout in Bend, the debate over medical marijuana heats up in Salem with a new bill to regulate the drug: Senate Bill 1531. And…

Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., applauded a Senate hearing Thursday — that moves the Crooked River Collaborative Water Security Act…

The Redmond School District Board of Directors has voted to be a receiving district during open enrollment for the 2014-2015 school year. The…