Month: June 2015

As the High Desert braces for the possibility of a brutal wildfire season, Congress is sparking what Oregon lawmakers hope will generate badly needed…

Elevated water temperatures are most likely the cause of earlier than normal spring Chinook salmon deaths in the Willamette River and some of its…

The Oregon Senate Rules Committee on Thursday approved a measure sponsored by Rep. Knute Buehler, R-Bend, to allow women to purchase birth control…

Oregon State University announced Thursday it will begin construction of its disputed new OSU-Cascades Westside campus as soon as required permits…

The last meeting of June for just about any local government is full of dollars and cents and numbers, as the next fiscal year looms – or in…

Thursday marked the first day of full operation of the Bend Fire Department’s new Basic Life Support tiered response system, a move that…

A man apparently intended to take his own life late Wednesday night by standing in the path of a freight train in southeast Bend — but changed…

A nationwide backlog has the Oregon Legislature looking into untested rape kits. Oregon State Police requested the numbers from each agency. The kits…

Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades (VIM) recently received a $1,500 grant from Wells Fargo. This gift will sponsor comprehensive medical…

Looking for a weekend break from the cares of cancer? The St. Charles Cancer Survivorship Program offers its annual Soaring Spirits Survivor and…

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department will temporarily close Pilot Butte State Park’s summit road to both vehicle and foot traffic on…

Provisions to pay for the most extreme wildfires through federal disaster funding were included in the Fiscal Year 2016 Interior Appropriations Bill,…

About a dozen Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue team members were called out Wednesday afternoon to help a hiker from Tigard who had…

Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. applauded news Thursday that the Department of Veterans Affairs has has…

A Metolius man was unhurt but cited on several charges Wednesday afternoon after he apparently fell asleep behind the wheel, drifted off Highway 126…

An elite, private elite American school in Japan has admitted to covering up sexual abuse cases decades ago involving a techer. Now, 40 years…

Southeast 15 th Street between Reed Market Road and Twin Lakes Loop will be closed to traffic from Monday, June 22 through Wednesday, June 24 to…

The planned expansion of the urban growth boundary in Bend has been discussed for a long time. Now, with the recent Shevlin Fire on the heels of last…

KTVZ viewers in Sunriver and north La Pine viewing our services on Digital Channel 24 will experience outages on Thursday for maintenance, said Chief…

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., introduced Wednesday the Protecting Individuals From Mass Aerial Surveillance Act, which would…