Month: November 2014

The number of people who call Central Oregon home is growing — no news to just about anyone these days. But new annual estimates out Tuesday…

Despite the biggest single month in job growth in nearly two decades, Oregon’s unemployment rate was unchanged at 7 percent in October…

There are more than 20,000 people who live in Crook County. More than 200 of them are homeless, and there is only one homeless shelter in the whole…

A 19-year-old Redmond-area woman whose body was found Sunday morning in a dry irrigation canal died of accidental hypothermia related to exposure,…

Bend’s Community Center is partnering with the Marine Corp League’s 2014 Toys For Tots campaign. They are now taking applications Monday…

With the cold weather and season’s first significant snowfall on the ground, and with more wet, ice and snow on the way, Central Oregon road…

With the recent onset of freezing temperatures and snow accumulations, federal land managers would like to remind the public that wood cutting season…

Central Oregon quickly transformed into a winter wonderland, but while it’s pretty to look at, it can be deadly to drive in. And there were…

So far, Redmond police are keeping quiet on the details in the death of a man whose body was found in a burned-out car. But the father of 21-year-old…

Police on Monday identified a 21-year old man whose body was found in a car that burned on a northwest Redmond street late Friday night and a…

One day after searchers found and recovered the body of an avid Bend mountain climber from the snowy slopes of the Middle Sister, his employer at a…

Volunteer health leaders needed-no experience necessary! Do you like to help advise friends and family with their health, do you have a chronic…

Nearly a dozen dogs that were braving the cold weather at a Madras shelter are in warm homes for now, thanks to a Bend non-profit and others who…

Oregon public health officials said Monday are seeing less resistance in bacteria most responsible for serious respiratory infections such as…

More than 11 million acres of dry forest in Oregon and Washington are in need of restoration, according to a new study reported Monday by scientists…

As Central Oregon continues to shiver under frigid, record-breaking cold and dig out from up to a foot or two of snow, one school district —…

Upgrades have been completed at four Bend-La Pine schools, with four more big projects set to start in the spring under a $96 million bond measure…

An attic fire near a wood stove caused about $2,500 damage to a manufactured home in the Romaine Village area of southwest Bend early Monday,…

Police in Klamath Falls exchanged gunfire with a fleeing grocery store robbery suspect Sunday night and the suspect was killed, Klamath County…

Average retail gasoline prices in Oregon have risen 0.8 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.06/g Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s…