Month: April 2016

Beginning at 8 a.m. on Thursday and continuing through the day, Revere Avenue will be closed at the railroad tracks between Division Street and Northeast Lytle Street, Bend officials said. The BNSF railroad company will be replacing the tracks at the Revere crossing, they said. Marked detours will be in place for east and westbound

A Bend family is heartbroken after its dog, Hershey, ran away, and the person who said he has the dog wants money in exchange. “He’s just a big goofball,” said Greg Mikkelson of his brother’s dog Hershey, a chocolate lab. Mikkelson’s brother was on vacation when Hershey ran away on Sunday evening in the Pilot

Dine out at a local restaurant on Tuesday, April 19 th and help homeless animals. Participating Tables for Tails restaurants are partnering with the Humane Society of Central Oregon so people can dine out for a cause and help those with paws. Enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner on Tuesday, April 19 th at a participating

Five of the 17 dogs rescued from meat farms in South Korea are ready for adoption at the Humane Society of Central Oregon in Bend, the shelter announced Tuesday. The dogs are happy and healthy and have been adjusting to life outside of cages. Things such as big open spaces and even water bowls are

Fifty years after acquiring a lumber mill on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, tribal leaders announced Monday the permanent closure and impending bankruptcy and liquidation of the Warm Springs Forest Products Industries mill. Daniel Lawrence has worked at the mill on and off since the ’80s. For the past six years, he’s worked in the

Bend firefighters stopped a blaze in a Broken Top townhouse under construction early Tuesday evening and later said the most likely cause was improper disposal of cigarettes. A worker preparing to leave for the day spotted the fire and called emergency dispatchers shortly after 5 p.m. to the one of five units in a townhouse

Oregon received an A+ grade, when it comes to government spending transparency in a new report released Wednesday, That’s the grade given in “Following the Money 2016: How the 50 States Rate in Providing Online Access to Government Spending Data,” the seventh annual report of its kind by Oregon Public Interest Research Group Foundation. Oregon

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and fellow Sens. Mark Kirk (R-IL), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Patty Murray (D-WA) wrote Tuesday to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, urging him to move the 2017 NBA All-Star game away from Charlotte, North Carolina. The senators’ call for a new location follows North Carolina’s passage

Pacific Power recently announced it plans to replace 590,000 electric meters at Oregon homes and businesses in 2018 and 2019 with new smart meters. The multi-state utility said the new meters will provide customers with the information they need to make informed decisions about their electrical energy usage and enable smart er, more efficient management

A fire consumed a barn in Tumalo on Saturday. Fire crews responded to the barn fire off Couch Market Road that destroyed the $75,000 barn and $50,000-worth of contents. But what we didn’t know until Tuesday is the story of the champion horse who was let out of the barn a short time earlier and

Oregon’s unemployment rate dropped to a record low of 4.5 percent in March — the lowest point since comparable records began in 1976, the state Employment Department reported Tuesday. Oregon’s February unemployment rate was 4.8 percent. A year ago, in March 2015, Oregon’s unemployment rate was 5.7 percent. With the U.S. unemployment rate at 5.0

A new Prineville mother’s joy has been tempered with dismay after her car, with baby supplies inside, was stolen while she was in labor Monday afternoon at St. Charles Bend. Casey Purcell didn’t want to speak to NewsChannel 21 on camera Tuesday, but her mother, Ginger Purcell, said the family is shock that this would

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With spring at hand, the Oregon Department of Transportation is advising motorists to be on the lookout for migrating mule deer on U.S. Highway 97 and other Central Oregon highways “Spring is the traditional season when mule deer that have been over-wintering near Fort Rock make their way back to the eastern slopes of the

U.S. Cellular and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Bend announced Tuesday a donation of $10,000 for 2016 science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programming. This contribution will expand its programming to help Bend-area students succeed in school and prepare for future careers. Together with Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), U.S. Cellular is

Several miles of road south of Black Canyon Wilderness are temporarily closed to the public while workers repair the hole left behind after a large tree fell. This week, forest employees discovered a 10-foot deep and 20-foot wide hole in Forest Road 5850400 that occurred when an adjacent Ponderosa pine recently fell. The tree’s roots

The Iterate program operated by the Oregon State University Advantage Accelerator/ RAIN Corvallis is expanding this spring to Bend and Newport, providing assistance to people who wish to become entrepreneurs and start a successful business. Based in Corvallis, the program is open to OSU staff, researchers and students, as well as community members. It consists

Nearly four years after the Rager Ranger Station was closed, some Crook County residents are asking the U.S. Forest Service to keep the buildings in place. Currently, there are 35 buildings on the property, located 15 miles northeast of Paulina. Officials said eight buildings will be left on site, while the others will be removed.

As part of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced Tuesday two new Crime Victims’ Compensation benefits that will provide free counseling sessions for victims of sexual assault. The Oregon Department of Justice’s Crime Victims’ Compensation Program will provide 15 counseling sessions to sexual assault survivors who will have their unprocessed

Reser’s Fine Foods, Inc. of Beaverton is recalling 19 refrigerated salad items due to notification from one of our ingredient suppliers that Listeria monocytogenes may be present in one lot of onions that was used in the manufacture of these salads. Listeria monocytogenes is an organism which can cause serious and sometime fatal infections in