Month: February 2016

A Bend man initially accused of abducting and raping a former girlfriend last year, holding her against her will in her home, took a plea deal in…

Chipotle restaurants in Bend and across the country reopened Monday after a midday four-hour nationwide closure to talk about food safety efforts in…

Courtney Negethon and her husband moved from Montana to Central Oregon in order to start fresh and plant new roots. Now seven months pregnant,…

An Ogden, Utah man was killed and four people, three of them children, were treated for injuries Monday morning after their minivan left icy U.S.…

The U.S. Bank Mini PPP is now open for online registration. To register go to, www.mbsef.org, click on Events and then click on U.S. Bank Kid’s…

Bend Fire Department Deputy Chief of Administration Bill Boos has been selected for the 2016 Fire Service Executive Development Institute, a…

A weekend autopsy on a man’s body found in the Deschutes River near downtown Bend late last week found no signs of foul play, police said…

A Redmond woman was arrested in Burns on Sunday on drug charges in connection with a raid on a northwest Redmond mobile home a week earlier, police…

Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue crews came to the aid Saturday of a 62-year-old Bend man who fell into a tree well while skiing…

Dogs stole the spotlight Saturday in Sunriver. The Sunriver Brewing Company and the American Cancer Society Bark for Life hosted the third annual K-9…

A 22-year-old Prineville man stole a car warming up in a Sisters driveway early Saturday and crashed it a short time later on Wilt Road, Deschutes…

Soft music played as hundreds of people from across the country crowded into a Mormon church in a small Utah town for Friday’s funeral for the…

A Seaside police sergeant was shot and killed Friday night while trying to arrest a man wanted on a felony assault warrant, and a fellow officer…

Oregon’s mountain snowpack remains at normal to above-normal levels and continues to surpass last year’s peak levels, according to the…

The city of Bend has placed signs to warn commercial truck drivers of the new, lower weight limits on the Archie Briggs Road bridge over the…

Deschutes County seeks two volunteer Planning Commission members and is accepting applications until Friday, March 4, at 5 p.m. The Planning…

Five middle school girls are making a big difference in the lives of some kids.Members of Camp Fire Central Oregon’s Teens In Action program…

Water is the source of life and in Central Oregon. It’s also the source of beer. “Water is extremely important to the brewing…

A catering van burst into flames shortly after hitting a deer on Highway 97 near Deschutes Junction north of Bend on Friday, but the driver got out…

The Oregon State Sheriff’s Association issued a statement Thursday that it said is a “response to questions about the Oregon office of…