Month: March 2016

Four wolves in northeast Oregon’s Imnaha pack, found to be associated with five recent livestock depredations, were shot and killed Thursday by ODFW staff on private land in Wallowa County, officials said. The killings came hours after the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said it had confirmed five livestock depredation incidents on private land

NewsChannel 21 is accepting resumes for a paid broadcast/digital producing internship. We offer real-world, hands-on experience with the goal of preparing producer candidates for full-time employment in our Bend, OR newsroom. The NewsChannel 21 internship is open to currently enrolled college/university juniors, seniors, and graduate students; recent college/university graduates are also eligible. Preference will be

Travel Oregon is hosting 22 influential, international tour operators from eight countries on its inaugural Oregon Road Rally, April 3-9. Representatives from the key target markets of China, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom and Canada will discover and explore Oregon on a 7-day trek that covers each region of the state.

Deschutes County is looking for a new volunteer planning commission member to fill a vacancy for an at-large position. Applications will be accepted until Friday, April 15, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. The Planning Commission reviews land use policy and zoning regulations and makes recommendations to the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners. Members make up the

The Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will meet on April 13-14 in Redmond to discuss issues relating to the management and protection of wild horses and burros on Western public rangelands. The two-day meeting will take place on Wednesday, April 13, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday,

A Redmond courier driver and a Bend couple were killed Wednesday afternoon in a head-on crash on U.S. Highway 20 about 25 miles east of Bend, Oregon State Police said. Troopers and emergency personnel responded around 3 p.m. to the crash near milepost 26, in the Millican area, said Lt. Bill Fugate. A preliminary investigation

A group of 23 students based out of Mountain View High School in Bend are heading to Portland for the FIRST Pacific Northwest Championship Tournament in robotics. If their team, High Desert Droids, qualifies, their next stop is the FIRST Robotics World Championship. From designing to building, this group does it all. “We spend five

Fifty years after the start of the Vietnam War, the Warm Springs community staged a “Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans” parade and expo on Wednesday. Many veterans said the celebration was much appreciated and a long time coming, after a less than welcome return back then. After veterans returned from Vietnam, many were never properly thanked

A 30-year-old Bend woman was injured when slipped on an icy trail near Sisters Wednesday and was rescued by Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue, the agency said. Trisha Russell of Bend called for help just before 1 p.m. for Kendra Owens, a friend who had slipped on ice and suffered an injury while they

It’s less than two months until Oregon’s primary election, and the race for Crook County judge is starting to heat up. Current County Judge Mike McCabe — the county’s top elected official, a non-partisan post — is stepping down after 24 years, and three men are squaring off to fill the seat: current county commissioners

A Redmond man’s guilty plea and sentence in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend puts a tragic spotlight on the issue of domestic violence — a significant problem in Central Oregon that is drawing closer attention. The parents of Rebekah Gomes had worried that Mario Morataya might hurt her, and warned her, also confronting him

They’re new, highly motivated, and have donated nearly $20,000 to Central Oregon charities since October. The 100 Men Who Care of Central Oregon — a new Central Oregon nonprofit based on the crowd-sourced philanthropy model — has a mission to raise and support those in need, and they are off to a great start. After

A Redmond man charged with fatally shooting his former girlfriend changed his plea to aggravated murder and other charges during an emotional sentencing hearing Tuesday afternoon and was sentenced to life in prison, with a possibility of parole after 30 years. Mario Emanuel Morataya, 23, had pleaded not guilty earlier to aggravated murder, second-degree attempted

This week, America is marking the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. And one such event was held Wednesday in Warm Springs, with a “Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans” parade and expo. Organizers said the event was held to publicly welcome home and honor Vietnam veterans, as well as educate the public and the younger generation

This week, Oregon’s Public Employee Retirement System Board received an earnings report on the status of the PERS fund investment. The report said Oregon’s PERS fund fell by 4 percent in 2015, a loss of nearly $3 billion — and a Central Oregon lawmaker said that means major reforms are more urgent than ever. “The

One month into higher speed limits on sections of rural Oregon highways, including Highway 97 north of Bend and Highway 20 east of Bend, State Police said they have not seen a large increase in violations or crashes so far. OSP Lt. Bill Fugate said Tuesday during a ride-along with NewsChannel 21 that for the

Central Oregon drug agents and the region’s SWAT team arrested a Bend man as he slept in his pickup truck along Highway 22 in Linn County, finding more than a half-pound of methamphetamine and five guns – three of them stolen — inside his truck, authorities said Tuesday. Krishna Desaigoudar, 52, had been under investigation

The week of April 4 -8, emergency managers from around the state, along with tribal, private, nonprofit and federal partners, will be convening at Kah-Nee-Ta Resort in Warm Springs for the third annual Oregon Prepared! Workshop. The workshop, which is coordinated by staff members at the Oregon Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and produced in

Warmer weather has opened up prescribed burning opportunities on the Deschutes and Ochoco national forests, beginning as early as Thursday. If conditions remain favorable, fuels specialists are planning to burn 850 acres in the southernmost area of the Deschutes forest, 22 miles southeast of La Pine near Hole in the Ground beginning Thursday and lasting

Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., along with a bipartisan group of their colleagues, called Wednesday for new federal resources to address the troubling and pervasive problem of sexual assault on college and university campuses across the country. “Every year, tens of thousands of women and men who attend college