Month: February 2015

Data from 500 GPS radio collars will soon replace an older population model and conventional wisdom about mule deer in the southern Blue Mountains.…

A fire in a southeast Bend industrial park Thursday night caused $30,000 damage to a welding shop, but likely would have been far more severe and…

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., released the following statement Friday after the U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass a bill that would extend…

On Feb.14, DutchBros. Coffee ‘s company-wide food drive collected 487,966 pounds of nonperishable items for food banks across seven states, a…

Recreational and medical marijuana should not be sold at the same retail outlets unless both products are tracked and tested in the same way, the…

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., secured a commitment from U.S. Forest Service Chief Thomas Tidwell at a hearing Thursday to provide much-needed funding to…

“We got a message from (our son) Christopher: ‘I’m locked in a room, they took the chairs from me, they turned down the lights and…

A La Pine man arrested late last month after a reported drive-by shooting in northern Klamath County and a standoff at a La Pine home has surrendered…

Many people have been praying for snow, only to have those prayers answered with sun and record-breaking temperatures. Now snow is finally back in…

An immediate departure for Redmond’s only aviation fueling company could leave the airport in limbo. The city says it is for the sake of…

According to data released Thursday by CoreLogic, nearly 900,000 single-family homes across 13 states in the western U.S., including nearly 13,000 in…

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum testified Thursday before the Senate Education Committee in support of SB 187, the Oregon Student Online…

Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and John Boozman, R-Ark., along with Rep. Mark Takano, D-Ca., introduced Thursday the GI Bill Fairness Act, legislation…

The Redmond School District Board of Directors has voted to be a receiving district during open enrollment for the 2015-2016 school year. The…

A trip to the grocery store is something most Americans make at least once , if not twice a week. But how clean is your neighborhood store? From…

Dozens piled into the Central Oregon Environmental Center in downtown Bend Wednesday night to talk cougars. The group specifically was there to…

Oregon’s senior senator and 2nd District congressman offered diametrically opposing reactions to the FCC’s 3-2 vote Thursday to impose…

A 42-year-old man who became trapped in a burning, long-vacant home in Madras Sunday night was critically burned before he could be rescued by…

In a time when the Internet is known for hate tweets and Facebook wars, Timothy Phanco from Bend took to the Web to create a page to spread love and…

Oregon gained manufacturing jobs in 2014 at a rate more than double the national average, reports the 2015 Oregon Manufacturers Directory ® , an…