Month: November 2015

The High Desert Museum is collecting donated blankets with personal stories behind them to be used in a new exhibition opening next spring.…

Camp Fire Central Oregon, a local organization that provides programs for our youth to find their spark and ensure they gain the skills necessary to…

Imagine a drone flying into a hurricane zone to drop urgently needed supplies, called in by a swipe on a smart phone, or a series of tethered buoys…

The Bend Endurance Academy’s Cyclocross Team finished their regular season over the weekend at the State Championship Cyclocross Race in Sandy,…

On Saturday the Crook County Sheriff’s Office, in partnership with Data Delete, sponsored a personal papers Shred Day, prescription drug take…

Black Friday is almost here, but don’t forget about Small Business Saturday on November 28 th ! In order to encourage Bendites and visitors to…

A Washington state woman pulled over for speeding on Interstate 5 in the Eugene area Friday night was found by a drug-sniffing police dog to be…

Across Central Oregon, many people are making difficult choices. They need to choose which bill to pay first or whether to pay the energy bill, for…

More than 800 dogs and cats from animal shelters in California are getting a second chance at life, and about 30 of them arrived Friday afternoon in…

Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel filed criminal charges Friday against a current and former employee of the Sunriver FireDepartment,…

State Sen. Tim Knopp, R-Bend, responded with concern Friday to the adoption of 2017 Public Employee Retirement System advisory rates estimated to…

Mt. Bachelor opened its 58th winter season on Saturday, with limited conditions in early-season snow, and skiers and boarders traveled to the slopes…

In 2015, a witches’ brew of drought, hot weather and dry lightning spawned more than 2,000 wildfires across Oregon that consumed some 631,000…

Over the past few months, Oregon State Police have voluntarily suspended all substance analysis in the Bend and Pendleton crime labs, but Deschutes…

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has released a ” Business Readiness Guidebook for Oregon Recreational Marijuana Operations ” for…

Four broken drinking fountains in downtown Bend will be removed starting Nov. 30, and that’s brought a mix of reaction – including some…

Oregon Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., joined Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), joined by Sens. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Edward J. Markey…

A Redmond couple who recently replaced their smoke detector battery was awakened by it early Friday and were able to escape their home and call…

In the last year, Oregon gained its 4 millionth resident. And with Deschutes County being once again the fastest-growing county in the state, we are…

Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., joined colleagues Thursday in backing a measure to halt entry of Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the U.S., saying to do so…