Month: March 2014

An Oregon State Police trooper’s Highway 97 traffic stop last Wednesday about 15 miles north of Madras led to the seizure of about 31 pounds of…

Applications are now available for families who want to enroll their children in NeighborImpact’s Head Start program in Deschutes and Crook…

Central Oregon’s job growth stalled in February, with all three counties posting seasonally adjusted job losses — and yet, the…

An attempted traffic stop south of Madras Sunday morning led to a police chase into Metolius, where a man and woman ditched the car, ran and hid in a…

Hazing of double-crested cormorants is set to begin soon in several areas along the Oregon coast in an attempt to improve survival of juvenile salmon…

The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services, Occupational Safety and Health Division (Oregon OSHA) said Monday it has fined WildCat Haven…

A reported cougar sighting by a passing motorist late Sunday night in Deschutes River Woods, south of Bend, sparked a fruitless search and a reminder…

A fire that began in a small outbuilding at Crooked River Ranch Friday night apparently spread to a car, then to a double-wide manufactured home that…

A Prineville man escaped injury early Sunday when his pickup truck flipped on Highway 126 after he dropped a cigarette in his lap, Crook County…

Three snowmobile crashes in Central Oregon on Saturday afternoon killed one rider, a Lebanon man, and injured two others, authorities said. Linn…

Two boys were struck by one and possibly two SUVs in Deschutes River Woods, south of Bend Friday evening, authorities said Saturday, adding that the…

The first of two memorial services was held Saturday for Pivoyne Zenalda Castro-Luna, a Bend woman who police say was a homicide victim, while a…

Bend’s OSU-Cascades four-year university is set to open in the fall of 2015, but not everyone is on board — and some are threatening to…

Tom Hignell is looking at what used to be a waterfall on the Pilot Butte Canal north of Bend. “You can see how big a fall it was, and it used…

Gov. John Kitzhaber has signed a drought emergency declaration sought by Crook County, paving the way for state assistance after a winter that saw…

Lollipops, gummies, and truffles — Oregon is making it illegal to sell some of these items at medical marijuana dispensaries. House Bill 1531…

There’s a vicious cycle in Crook County. A high number of adults are smoking and teens are mimicking their behavior. Nine percent of eighth…

There’s a new motto going around Redmond. “If you brew it, and if you pour it, they will come,” Jesse Sweetman, the owner of…

A Redmond fugitive who threatened police and led officers on a chase over a year ago was sentenced Friday to more than eight years in prison on a…

From solar panels atop a junior high school in the Yakima Valley to a wind project on the southern Oregon Coast, to a geothermal facility in Klamath…