Month: October 2015

An inspiring Madras High School senior was named homecoming king Friday night, to the loud cheers of his supportive classmates and community —…

Economic Development for Central Oregon on Friday hosted the 12 th Annual Bend Venture Conference before a sold-out crowd and at day’s end…

Starting as early as Monday, fuels specialists on the Deschutes National Forest intend to ignite five prescribed burn units east of Round Mountain…

Polk County sheriff’s deputies said Friday afternoon that a missing woman who took a 9-month-old girl against a court order had been found in…

The Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division is accepting applications for members of its Marijuana Rules Advisory Committee. The deadline to…

A Bend man suffered non-life-threatening injuries Friday when he swerved to avoid an animal and his car left Cline Falls Highway in Tumalo, striking…

Juniper Swim & Fitness Center in northeast Bend was closed Friday due to a power outage, Bend Park and Rec District officials said. All afternoon…

Residents in Jefferson County sent a message to county commissioners Thursday night: They they don’t want recreational marijuana businesses in…

A 29-year-old man accused of assaulting his roommate at a northeast Bend duplex ran away and hid Wednesday night, prompting a search of the…

The Boy Scouts of America’s Fremont District will be collecting food in Central Oregon again this year on Saturday, November 14th . Food may be…

Applications are now open for Facebook Prineville Data Center Local Community Action Grants at https://www.facebook.com/PrinevilleDataCenter .…

Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission has finalized administrative rules to implement the Oregon Promise, which the Legislature…

A visitor from London on a powered paraglider flight from Madras to Bend escaped serious injury Thursday evening when the craft’s parachute…

It is a fire season for the record books across the Pacific Northwest. In Oregon, there were 2,273 fires that burned 631,547 acres. “I would…

Fire restrictions will be reduced in coming days on private and non-federal public forest and rangelands protected by Oregon Department of…

Starting Friday, Deschutes National Forests fuels specialists will be burning piles of chipped material 3 miles north of Crane Prairie Reservoir.…

Anglers will have an additional three weeks to enjoy fall fishing at North Twin Lake near Bend. The lake was scheduled to close to all fishing on…

The third annual Adult Abuse Prevention and Investigations report is now available. The 2014 report combines abuse information about older adults,…

Extraordinary progress in the past decade has brought 1.6 percent of the world’s ocean to a category of “strongly protected,”…

As thousands of fish die in the Deschutes River, a few thousand more were saved during this week’s multi-day effort that’s becoming a…