Month: November 2014

Mt. Bachelor said Tuesday it will alter its planned operating schedule this week due to an unexpected shift to warm and wet weather through Thanksgiving Day. It won’t open more lifts Wednesday and will close for the holiday, with hopes a colder storm late in the week gets things back on track. Recent heavy rain

The Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation and the sponsors of the U.S. Bank Pole Pedal Paddle are excited to be hosting the 39 th Annual of the largest multi-sport event in the Northwest. Artists of all ages are eligible to enter this year’s Logo Contest. The U.S. Bank Pole Pedal Paddle is a multi-sport event

Deschutes County’s home prices are still rising among the 10 fastest in the country, though the market reflected some cooldown, as also seen nationwide, new figures out Tuesday showed. The Bend-Redmond metro area remained in the nation’s No 8 spot, with a yearly home-price growth of 16.18 percent, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., joined colleagues Tuesday in calling on the Federal Aviation Administration to speed up approvals for unmanned aerial systems test permits, and to ensure the agency’s plans to regulate these aircraft don’t fall behind schedule. The FAA created six test sites across the country to study unmanned aircraft

On Thursday, December 4th, the Bend Planning Commission is holding a public forum as part of the Vacation Home Rental Task Force meeting. From 6 – 6:55 pm, the public is welcomed to comment on potential recommendations or solutions on VHR regulation to meet community needs. (Comments limited to 3 minutes per person.). It will

The Redmond Police Department will be conducting enhanced DUII patrols during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. The primary intent of the heighten patrols is to prevent deaths, injuries and property damage caused by DUII drivers by removing them from the road. Redmond Police Department officers are trained to look for signs of impairment beyond just alcohol,

The city of Bend is inviting the public to offer feedback on design concepts for the Galveston Avenue corridor at a meeting held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, December 4, in Council Chambers at City Hall, 710 NW Wall Street, Bend. Over the past eight months, the city of Bend has been

One person was killed and several others escaped serious injuries in a pair of crashes, one head-on, Saturday night on icy Highway 26 on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, shutting the highway for about nine hours, authorities reported Monday. Warm Springs police received a report shortly after 7 p.m. of a crash on the highway

The Central Oregon Association of REALTORS® (COAR) is hosting a Holiday Lights Contest. Residents of the City of Bend are invited to nominate homes and neighborhoods for the contest. Members of COAR will then judge the lights on December 10 th and 11 th . Cash prizes up to $500 will be awarded to the

A fight over an old debt broke out at a downtown Redmond strip club early Sunday morning and led to an accidental shooting, a second victim suffering cuts to the hand from broken glass and a Madras man’s arrest on assault, drugs, weapons and other charges, police said Monday. Police revealed more details after spending

The Redmond Municipal Airport has reopened its primary Runway 4-22 after Phase 1 pavement rehabilitation construction was “substantially completed,” officials said Monday. The pavement rehabilitation of Runway 4-22 is a $20 million multi-phase project that is “part of the City of Redmond’s continuing commitment to provide the highest quality airport facilities and services to the

As the holiday season approached in 2007, Redmond Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Eric Sande recalls sitting with his parents, Neil and Phyllis Sande, as they reflected on their travels through Europe. Specifically, they talked about the traditional Christmas markets they discovered in Prague and throughout Germany. “A lot of European cities and villages host

Unemployment levels across the High Desert continue to show little improvement, although all three counties added jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis in October., the Oregon Employment Department reported Monday. Deschutes County’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 7.8 percent in October, while the rates in Crook County (10.1%) and Jefferson County (9.3%) remained significantly higher.

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department announced Monday that it will replace its across-the-board “discovery season” discount program with targeted deals starting in 2015. The discounts are still in effect now through April 30 , 2015, and reduce tent and RV campsite costs by $4 per night. The annual discount was created nearly 20 years

Picture a mat of woven corn husks floating on a pond and supporting a crop of tasty vegetables. That was one of the hundreds of solutions proposed by local students to help feed the world’s people. Some 1,150 Central Oregon students proposed new ways to improve agricultural equipment, systems, or processes in Inventerprise 2014, the

Thousands of Oregon families will be celebrating Thanksgiving with loved ones this week, and the American Red Cross has developed travel and cooking safety tips to help make the holiday a safe one. “The Thanksgiving holiday is one of the busiest travel times of the year, and Red Cross wants to help everyone be safe

It’s the calm before the storm: Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the rush of holiday shopping. But Central Oregon merchants are hoping you make local businesses your first shopping choice, to fill those big gift boxes at somewhere other than big-box stores. Robin Buckles at The Paper Place in Sisters says you get a lot

Six Crook County High School students and their driver escaped serious injury Saturday morning when their school bus slid off Century Drive west of Bend and flipped twice down a steep embankment and coming to rest against the trees, Oregon State Police reported. Members of the school’s cross-country ski team were headed for practice at

As frequently occurs due to late-Saturday network sports programming, NBC Nightly News won’t be offered on Saturday evening, so a special one-hour edition of NewsChannel 21 at Six will air from 6-7 p.m. Please tune in for your weekend local and national news, sports and Local Alert Weather.

A week after a lone gunman wounded three Oregon Army National Guard members in Kabul, Afghanistan, the most seriously wounded soldier is due to be moved from Germany to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas in coming days for further medical treatment, a Guard spokesman said Friday. Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry