Month: April 2014

At recess you’re never really alone, But for some kids, recess can be really lonely. “I would sit in a field and roll a ball,” one…

Ten of 12 businesses visited in Prineville and Powell Butte recently passed a check for alcohol sales to minors by refusing to sell alcohol to a…

The Deschutes County Community Development Department has drafted its Annual Report and Work Plan for fiscal year 2014-15. The document summarizes…

Three Warm Springs men were injured, one critically, when the driver turned an SUV in front of a semi-truck on Highway 97 at the north end of Madras…

A 66-year-old Bend man was killed Tuesday night when the motorhome he was driving left Highway 97 in northern Klamath County and rolled several times…

Thursday May 1 st marks the beginning of Wildfire Awareness Month in Oregon and May 3 rd is Wildfire Community Preparedness Day in Deschutes County.…

In 2013, the Bend Road User Safety Task Force initiated an effort to count pedestrians and bicyclists using the National Bicycle and Pedestrian…

Have you received an email with the subject line “Administrative Office” that looks like it came from the Oregon attorney general? The…

Bend Area Habitat for Humanity is thrilled to announce that local Habitat for Humanity advocate, Les Alford, has won the Clive Rainey Lifetime…

Georgia’s “Safe Carry Protection Act” — or as critics call it, the “Guns Everywhere Bill” — sparked…

A new state audit released Wednesday found that minority and economically disadvantaged eighth-graders were significantly behind their peers in…

Given favorable conditions, Deschutes National Forest fuel specialists on the Sisters Ranger District plan to conduct an approximately 160-acre…

Oregon Housing and Community Services is expecting closure of its successful Home Rescue Program in June, having distributed the allotted $220…

A handwritten note demanding money proved to be the key that led to the arrest Monday night of a 54-year-old Madras man near Prineville in last…

Spring is here, but nationwide lime prices are close to an all-time high. Some places have seen prices increase by close to four times, and it has…

Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Oregon’s Board of Directors has accepted Lisa Maxwell, Executive Director’s resignation. Lisa Maxwell…

An elderly driver from Colorado was killed and two Hillsboro residents in an SUV were injured in a two-vehicle crash that blocked U.S. Highway 20…

In the fall of 2015, Bend will start to look different. For the first time, freshmen will show up in the fall, ready to begin the start of their…

A newly published scientific study discovered that some resident fish in the lower Columbia River, namely largescale suckers, contain chemicals that…

On Monday night there was supposed to be, by some accounts, a debate between the two leading GOP primary U.S. Senate candidates, state Rep. Jason…