Month: July 2015

In partnership with St. Charles Foundation, St. Charles Madras is continuing its longstanding tradition of providing scholarships to students who…

A new Leading Edge scholarship fund at Oregon State University – Cascades is available to students entering the campus’s first freshman class…

New floating restrooms for Lake Billy Chinook are one of the projects approved by the Oregon State Marine Board recently. The board approved several…

The Deschutes National Forest will begin work Friday on expanding the parking area for Phil’s Trailhead, officials said Wednesday. During…

Nearly seven months after a Deschutes County Jail inmate died from a meth overdose behind bars, more details are coming out about the state…

A Bend marketing firm announced Tuesday plans are in the works for a record-breaking stunt late this fall — a steam-powered rocket flight…

Bend 2030 has released the results of a recent online community survey on transportation and said it will urge city councilors Wednesday night to…

Rental vacancies are tight, at just 1 percent here in Central Oregon. But for those looking to grow and-or smoke pot in their rental unit, that…

Police have arrested a second suspect in connection with an assault on a transient early Monday morning at a southwest Redmond intersection, police…

After 11 months of analysis and community engagement, a new program to manage short-term rental properties in Bend is now in effect, the city…

Anna and Justin Scribner have long been enamored with all things vintage – clothes, swing dancing, cars and records. In the late 1990s, they…

Tom Elliott and Barbara Scott say their Bend home is unlike any other place in which they’ve lived. In fact, it’s like no other house on…

Rep. Greg Walden (R-Hood River) issued the following statement Tuesday after the Obama Administration announced it had reached a nuclear deal with…

Bend Downtown: Art in the Atrium, Franklin Crossing, Watercolor Society of Oregon Aqueous Media Show, Cascade | Sotheby’s Vivian Olsen/ Barbara…

The news that a whiskey bar was coming to town made me happy. That glee grew the second I walked into the small space with its wood, metal and brick…

You know when you start dreaming of grocery sushi that you’ve waited too long. That’s your cue to head to Kanpai Sushi and Sake Bar. For…

When American frontiersman Kit Carson led expeditions along the Deschutes River in the early-19th century, he and his group probably ate some of the…

Sporting a fresh slate grey and black paint scheme and tasteful interior makeover, the award-winning gourmet restaurant Jen’s Garden has…

Oregon’s unemployment rate was 5.5 percent in June, a slight increase from May’s rate of 5.3 percent, the state Employment Department…

As summer starts to settle over Central Oregon, we are reminded of warm weather, the beautiful outdoors and all of the summer traditions we have come…