Month: July 2014

Cascade Natural Gas Company has begun work on Phase III of the Bend Gas Line Replacement Project. For the next few weeks, pipeline replacement crews…

A week after thunderstorms ignited numerous wildfires around the area, Marks Creek residents east of Prineville got news they they can go home after…

The Central Oregon District of the Oregon Department of Forestry, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, and the Central Oregon Fire Management…

Red Cross volunteers from around the region — Salem, Bend, Portland and southwest Washington — are gathered in central Oregon to assist…

A fast-moving southeast Bend duplex fire Saturday afternoon that spread to neighboring brush and trees, threatening nearby homes and prompting…

At 6,300 acres, the Bridge 99 Fire has put residents of one area on high alert with the flames heading north — and thinking back to 2002, when…

Firefighters have made progress containing the Shaniko Butte Fire, so fire officials said late Saturday they made the decision to re-open the Lower…

The Ochoco National Forest late Saturday issued a new, wider area closure that encompasses not just areas south of the Bailey Butte Fire but also…

Current as of Saturday, July 19, 2014 10:13:33 PM Incident Type Wildfire Cause Lightning Date of Origin Sunday July 13th, 2014 approx. 08:45 PM…

Blue skies in Sisters but the huge smoke plumes on the horizon tell a different story. The Bridge 99 and Bear Butte 2 Fires tripled in size…

A growing army of over 1,200 firefighters kept at it Saturday, battling the fast-growing Buzzard Complex group of fires that have now raced across…

The firefighting army tackling the 27,000-acre Shaniko Butte Fire grew to over 560 Friday and the containment figure also doubled, to 20 percent.…

A fire-weary week drew to a close Friday with little rest, watery eyes and lots of hard work ahead to contain numerous wildfires burning around the…

Wildfires sent thick smoke streaming across northern areas of the High Desert Friday, sending DEQ air pollution readings soaring to…

It was an historic battle for Central Oregon. The 2003 B&B Complex Fire would test the limits of firefighters and the. In August of that year,…

The federal Bureau of Land Management announced Friday that it is making sage grouse habitat protection a high natural resource priority, focusing…

The FORCE Lab, the biomechanics laboratory led by Oregon State University – Cascades and private partners, is seeking subjects for two research…

If you haven’t registered any of your vegetables or flowers for the Deschutes County Fair, there’s still time to register them in person…

A witness to a bike theft in NE Bend Wednesday afternoon chased the suspect while police were called, leading to a 26-year-old Bend man’s…

The Waterman Complex fire was at 35 percent containment among the three blazes, fire officials said late Thursday. The fire has burned over 6,000…