Month: March 2016

Daimler Trucks North America and Madras-area officials gathered on a breezy, chilly Monday to break ground on an $18 million expanded truck-testing…

The Bureau of Land Management recently announced that it is seeking public nominations for open positions on 34 Resource Advisory Councils (RACs),…

The FBI has arrested a 23-year-old California man in a weekend shooting on northeast Oregon’s Umatilla Indian Reservation that left a Pendleton…

TheOregon Department of Agriculture’s Pesticides Program finds itself in a muchstronger position to address issues and concerns from the public…

Starting Tuesday, City of Bend crews will be working on the curb ramps and pedestrian refuges (islands in the middle of the road where pedestrians…

Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced Monday that Oregon will receive more than $60 million in Secure Rural Schools payments this fiscal year…

Only 2.7 percent of the U.S. adult population achieves all four of some basic behavioral characteristics that researchers say would constitute a…

Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are urging their colleagues to improve federal air quality programs in the wake of several Portland neighborhoods…

St. Charles Health System is pleased to announce it is providing $200,000 in community benefit grants to nonprofit organizations throughout Central…

A pickup truck struck a power pole near on U.S. Highway 20 east of Sisters early Monday, and while the two occupants escaped injury, the crash cut…

A Prineville man was taken to the hospital for treatment early Monday after his pickup truck left a driveway bridge near Northwest O’Neil…

More than 100 happiness walls popped up across the country — one in Bend — on Saturday in honor of Sunday’s UN-sanctioned…

The first day of spring was a rainy one. But while some folks might have been out dodging those mud puddles on Sunday, others spent the day diving…

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Deputy Interior Secretary Michael Connor will travel to Harney County on Monday to meet with employees…

Three-quarters of Oregon drivers in a recent survey admitted to driving while distracted, mostly by engagement with a cellphone. That is just one…

A Portland man climbing at Smith Rock State Park was injured Saturday in a 15-foot fall at the bottom of a 125-foot-deep ravine, prompting the use of…

Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., led a bipartisan group of five senators Friday in urging the U.S. Department of Veterans…

“SUSTAIN Central Oregon” is a month long a series of lectures, workshops, tours, and films to celebrate Earth Month during April. The…

A Prineville man who recently worked as a drug and alcohol counselor was arrested in a guns-drawn traffic stop in Madras this week, accused of…

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown was in Bend on Thursday to give a speech and visit a school and business as she touts the state’s economic recovery,…