Month: December 2014

A Prineville couple were in good condition Sunday at St. Charles Bend, recovering from a head-on crash Saturday morning on icy Highway 20 near Suttle Lake, west of Sisters, authorities said. Troopers were dispatched shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday to the reported crash near milepost 86 in Jefferson County, troopers said. A preliminary investigation found

Two Bend transients wanted for parole violation fled an attempted traffic stop in northeast Bend Sunday evening, sparking a pursuit down several streets until they reached a cul-de-sac and stopped. The passenger was apprehended at the car but the driver ran, sparking a manhunt that found him hiding in a home’s yard, police said. The

A 32-year-old Prineville man has been sentenced to four months in jail after pleading no contest to crashing an ATV on his property last Feb. 1, killing a 22-year-old passenger. Mason Stafford was in Crook County Circuit Court on Thursday, where Judge Annette Hillman imposed the 120-day jail term on one count of criminally negligent

NewsChannel 21 aired an old NBC Nightly News program Saturday evening due to an error in transmission from the network, officials say. NBC fed the station a week-old broadcast of the nightly newscast, and we apologize for the error.

Back in June, about 190 Central Oregonians left for a year-long deployment in Afghanistan with the Oregon Army National Guard. The 1st Squadron of the 82nd Cavalry is based in Bend. We were there as friends and family said goodbye to a father, husband and soldier, 28-year-old Travis West. Five months have passed since West

Congress on Thursday unanimously approved legislation to implement a collaborative vision for water management along the Crooked River, sending the long-debated measure to the president’s desk for his signature. The bill passed the Senate unanimously Thursday afternoon and the House followed suit Thursday night, passing a stand-alone bill by unanimous consent In an earlier joint

Officers from across the High Desert joined in a procession Friday to pay their final respects to Bend police Sgt. John Lawrence, who died last week of natural causes at the age of 43. A sea of police lights proceeded silently down Greenwood Avenue in Bend. “It’s tough whenever we lose anybody from our family,”

The Bend Post Office is offering extended retail hours to help make customers’ shipping tasks a bit more convenient, just in time for the holidays. For the next two Saturdays, Dec. 13, and 20, the Bend Post Office will offer extended Saturday hours from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The Bend Post Office is located

Proceeds from the 19th annual Gingerbread Junction at Sunriver Resort, a charity event where members of the community build gingerbread home displays, raised $5,000 to build a real home through Newberry Habitat for Humanity. This worthy organization will use the funds to help build a home for a qualifying family in the La Pine area

Through its non-profit CXmas Junior Fund, Bowen Sports Performance is awarding $4,000 to more than a dozen junior cyclists from Oregon who are competing in the U.S. Cyclocross Nationals in Austin, Texas, January 7-11, 2015. The stipends will help the young cyclists offset the costs of traveling to nationals. “As we prepare to send juniors

Several Deschutes County residents have been hit with a scam call the past couple of days, claiming to be from a sheriff’s deputy and saying the call recipient missed jury duty — and must go buy a card to pay off an arrest warrant, officials said Friday. Here’s the full news release from the sheriff’s

We are currently experiencing technical difficulties interruptingOver the Air transmission, satellite channels and some cable system channels. “Services have been restored to our transmitter and subsequent distributions of our signal should be back up and running,” the station’s engineering blog states “We thank you for your patience with this disruption.” Overnight maintenance of KTVZ’s primary

During this season of giving, a few local businesses have adopted Cascade Youth and Family Center to help homeless and runaway teens. Christmas trees are for sale at Cascade Youth & Family Center, located at 19 SW Century Drive, Bend. A portion of the tree sales will benefit homeless and runaway youth. C.E. Lovejoy’s Brookswood

As wind-fanned flames ripped through windows of a Prineville home Thursday afternoon, firefighters battled the blaze from the top and worked to rescue trapped animals from the bottom. “(A neighbor) came over and told me the dogs were still in the house,” said a neighbor who noticed the fire after he smelled the smoke from

Winds topping 50 mph raked the High Desert Thursday, downing numerous trees and power lines and leaving thousands of Redmond-area residents in the dark as a powerful storm moved into the West Coast. More than 10,000 Redmond and Powell Butte customers of Pacific Power were out of service in the early afternoon; get updates here:

Pearl Harbor survivor Chuck Sellentin, 91, of La Pine, passed away Monday evening at Hospice House in Bend, surrounded by friends and family – just one day after he joined three other Central Oregon survivors to mark the 73 rd anniversary of the Japanese attack that drew America into World War II. “A great American

A 52-year-old Camp Sherman man was found dead Thursday morning in the wreckage of a car down a steep embankment in the woods off Highway 20 east of Sisters, Oregon State Police said. It appeared the crash occurred several hours earlier, after one and possibly two hit-and-run crashes involving the same car, troopers said as

Authorities said they are investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a home on Northeast First Street in Prineville late Thursday morning. Crook County Fire and Rescue was dispatched shortly before 11:30 a.m. to the reported house fire, sending eight firefighters, two engines and a medic to the scene, said Fire Chief Matt Smith.

Beginning on Jan. 1, the Oregon Electronics Recycling Program, Oregon E-Cycles, will expand to include the collection and recycling of computer peripherals (keyboards and mice) and printers. The program, administered by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, is completing its sixth year to collect and recycle computers, monitors and TVs throughout Oregon. Oregon E-Cycles includes

This year, the La Pine Volunteer Firefighters Association is focusing their winter holiday and Christmas efforts by adopting several children and their families and helping them this Holiday and Christmas season. The firefighters are using their own funds plus donations and by collecting books, puzzles or other educational materials, new warm winter clothes, and small