Month: April 2015

A Portland martial arts studio owner and sex abuse suspect who died in an apparent suicide early Sunday at the Deschutes County Jail had been given a…

Oregon’s new pay-by-the-mile road usage charge program, OReGO, took a big step forward Monday , as state officials announced that three private…

A 24-year-old Crooked River Ranch resident was arrested Monday afternoon after police were called out on a shooting report and learned three shots…

A proposed federal geothermal energy research lab at the Newberry Volcano near La Pine cleared its first hurdle on Monday and was awarded $400,000 by…

Preparations got underway Monday for “modest” remodeling work at the Bend Senior Center, Bend Parks and Rec reported. The projects…

Personal use firewood collection in designated woodcutting areas of the Deschutes National Forest opened Monday, and will ion Friday on the Ochoco…

If weather conditions remain favorable, up to 800 acres could be burned beginning as early as Tuesday on the east slope of Lookout Mountain in the…

The search for a snowboarder from California, missing on Mt. Bachelor, took a big positive turn Sunday night when he was able to call and report he…

The kindness of others helped raise over 1,400 donated baby items with an estimated value of the new and used articles to over $10,000 to the 2015…

Two inmates who escaped Sunday morning from the minimum-security Shutter Creek Correctional Institution in North Bend by apparently scaling a fence…

The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad will replace the railroad crossing of Baker Road in Deschutes River Woods from Monday, May 11 th through…

(April 27, 2015) — The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announces up to $100,000 in funding available for woodland owners in…

Is your home at risk of wildfire? With the extraordinarily severe 2014 fire season still fresh in their minds, Oregonians are now focusing their…

Average retail gasoline prices in Oregon have risen 8.7 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.79/g on Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s…

A 17-year-old Bend youth faces DUII, attempt to elude and other charges in connection with a pursuit and a pair of crashes in southeast Bend early…

It was the best feel-good moment of the week in Bend, when about 250 residents joined together in support of the smallest members of the community…

A decision on whether OSU-Cascades can build their new campus at a disputed site in southwest Bend is going to be delayed by another three to four…

A 42-year-old, unoccupied mobile home in southeast Bend was heavily damaged by a fire early Saturday that investigators traced to a woodstove that…

This week is the 100th anniversary of what many historians acknowledge as the Armenian genocide – the Turkish massacre of an estimated 1.5…

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission, meeting Friday in Bend, directed ODFW staff to develop two options for taking wolves off the state…