Month: September 2014

Economic Development for Central Oregon (EDCO), host of the annual Bend Venture Conference (BVC), has secured the participation of Seven Peaks…

A knife-wielding man who broke into several southwest Bend homes Monday morning, taking money and jewelry, and tried to carjack a woman’s car…

“I am the face of suicide,” Katherine Benson said. It’s a sunny afternoon. We are sitting on the back porch of her condo in Eagle…

BendBroadband was hit by a lengthy outage of its television services early Monday, a situation that continued well into the day before channels began…

Next month, the Sisters Ranger District of the Deschutes National Forest will begin offering commercial permits to purchase fuelwood on the district,…

Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue successfully completed three rescue missions in 12 hours on Sunday, which serves as a reminder for…

Less than six months after his release from state prison on a sex abuse conviction, the former executive director of the Redmond Proficiency Academy…

Beginning at midnight Monday, the Ochoco National Forest will drop the public use restrictions on campfires and firewood cutting that went into…

St. Charles Health System’s board of directors announced Monday it has hired a new president and chief executive officer, Joseph Sluka, to lead…

September 8 through 14 is National Suicide Awareness Week. To build awareness and work toward preventing suicide-and suicide attempts-the Deschutes…

A free residential document shredding, food drive and drug disposal event will take place at the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Substation…

The warm, sunny first Sunday of September was another busy one for Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue crews, who rescued two lost or…

It was a long Saturday evening and night for Crook County firefighters who battled a stubborn fire in Powell Butte that burned a hay barn, two…

And they’re off! The 25th Annual Great Drake Park Rotary Duck Race was held Sunday for families to enjoy jumpers, food and live music, all for…

A driver on the Bend Parkway pulled onto the median after the engine died Saturday afternoon — but that turned out to be a bad choice, as it…

A 60-year-old Tualatin man, convicted earlier this year of placing a hidden video camera in a Sherwood Starbucks bathroom, pleaded guilty Friday in…

“Now is not the time to let our guard down,” says Oregon Department of Forestry Fire Prevention Coordinator Tom Fields when asked about…

Nearly 18 years ago, one of two men cutting trees for firewood in the woods near La Pine was arrested when officers found a .22 caliber pistol in his…

The deep green shade of the Deschutes River of late has raised concerns among some over the water quality. “I’m certainly seeing the…

A truck driver was killed early Friday when his rig left state Highway 58 and crashed about 25 miles east of Oakridge, Oregon State Police said. His…