Month: February 2016

Crooked River Ranch resident Mitchell Julio Morris, 20, appeared Monday in Jefferson County Circuit Court on two counts of aggravated murder and…

Oregon’s private employers were looking to fill about 48,000 job vacancies at any given time, according to new annual figures from the Oregon…

The Oregon Senate passed Monday two bills written and championed by state Rep. Knute Buehler, R-Bend, to protect government whistleblowers and tackle…

The last day to mail ballots for the Tuesday, March 8 Special Election on the city of Bend’s gas tax proposal is this Wednesday, March 2,…

Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., along with Al Franken, D-Minn., Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., led the charge Monday…

The High Desert Museum is offering week-long, summer camps that focus on nature, art and science for kids in grades K-5th from June 20 through August…

Average retail gasoline prices in Oregon have risen 1.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $1.89 a gallon Sunday,, according to…

One of several transients ordered by police to vacate a homeless camp on a city-owned lot in northeast Bend was arrested Saturday and jailed on a…

This time of year, many farmers, ranchers and land owners use fire to ready their land for the spring and summer growing season. This practice is a…

Hydro Flask, the Bend-based maker of high-performance, insulated stainless steel flasks, announced Monday it will be acquired by a subsidiary of…

A 60-year-old state prison inmate, convicted in 1993 of a Deschutes County murder and sentenced to life in prison, died Saturday at a Portland area…

As the investigation continues into a double-homicide on Crooked River Ranch, neighbors in the quiet, close-knit community expressed shock Sunday.…

A late-night drug raid this week on a Tumalo home tied to the heroin trade around Deschutes County led to charges against four residents, police…

Fired Deschutes County sheriff’s captain Scott Beard was conditionally released from the Lane County Jail on Friday, a week after being…

The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs is well on its way to greater control of hunting within the reservation, and on its vast ceded lands around…

A St. Charles Bend pharmacy technician has been arrested on theft, drug possession and other charges, accused of stealing $10,000 worth of a…

A small air conditioning unit failed and caught on fire in a computer server room at the Bend Research facility in Tumalo early Saturday morning, but…

Sisters City Manager Andrew Gorayeb has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the results of an outside investigation of several workplace…

The Oregon Senate overwhelmingly approved Friday a bill sponsored by state Rep. Tim Knopp, R-Bend, allowing an unlimited statute of limitations for…

The Bend Police Department Citizen’s Academy has received recognition as a national and regional model and continues to be a highly popular…