Month: October 2014

The Bend-La Pine Schools community has much to celebrate with the release of the Oregon Department of Education’s Report Card. Twenty-four of…

Don’t miss a wonderful time of celebrating the newly opened North County Health Services Building in Redmond! An October 28 open house and…

For the third year in a row, NeighborImpact is named one of the 100 best nonprofits to work for by Oregon Business Magazine. The organization…

Central Oregon business and civic leaders are being called to the Bend-La Pine Schools principals’ offices through the Education…

AARP Foundation Tax-Aide, the nation’s largest free, volunteer-run tax preparation and assistance service, is seeking volunteers across Oregon…

On Thursday afternoon, charter members of 100+ Women Who Care of Central Oregon presented their first official donation to the Bethlehem Inn, a…

The city of Redmond recently launched a Bike Walk Roll Redmond campaign to encourage residents to think about how the city can help residents bike,…

October marks the end of the irrigation season in the Deschutes River Basin, where water flows have been managed the same way for the past 65 years…

The city of Prineville has agreed to have its insurance company pay fired police chief Eric Bush $666,701 – the maximum allowed by state law – to…

One of the car owners hit by by this week’s window-smashing vandals in southeast Bend said Thursday he heard it happen, but didn’t…

Oregon voters soon will decide whether to join Washington and California in adopting a “top-two” primary election system. Currently, the…

Fuels specialists on the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District began a 597-acre prescribed burn on Thursday, 14 miles southeast of Bend near Company Butte.…

A 29-year-old former California woman’s decision to move to Oregon and take her life with the assistance of doctors has gone viral —…

Two unrelated overnight traffic stops on the north side of Bend led to the call-out of at a Bend drug-detection dog and three arrests on drug…

Prineville police said Thursday they are still looking for whoever stole a pickup truck near a downtown tavern Wednesday night and abandoned it near…

This year, 28 high-poverty schools in 20 Oregon districts — four in Central Oregon — made strong gains or sustained high levels of…

Officers Serve as Celebrity Waiters/Waitresses for Tip-A-Cop Fundraiser Red Robin and Law Enforcement to raise funds to benefit Special Olympics Who:…

No playgrounds. No neatly mowed grass fields. No mountain bike trails. The Bend Park and Recreation District is taking a new approach in the…

Reports of shots fired in a southwest Redmond neighborhood Tuesday evening led to a resident’s arrest and the call-out of two bomb squad units…

A Seneca-area man who was the subject of an intensive day-long manhunt in Grant County was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon, ending a tense…