Month: June 2016

Summerhas officially arrived, and the Oregon Department of Agriculture is offeringadvice to pet owners who can take several steps themselves in…

Job growth continues at a fast pace across much of the High Desert, but rates of growth are showing signs of slowing, the state Employment Department…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gov. Kate Brown says she wants all Oregon school districts to have a plan ready by Oct. 1 for testing lead, radon and other…

Michele Phillips of Eugene is the latest Oregon Lottery player to win $50,000 playing Powerball this year. Phillips purchased her ticket at Dari-Mart…

A Redmond man was seriously injured in an off-roading crash on BLM land just east of Redmond Sunday. After the crash, Ryan Rojas was flown to St.…

A 27-year-old Madras man was arrested Monday in the holdup earlier this month of the Madras Burger King – an “inside job” that police…

The Oregon Marine Board, law enforcement from 32 counties and the Oregon State Police will be participating in Operation Dry Water this coming…

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will make $52 million in loans available to rural electric…

A wildfire that ignited Monday afternoon burned nearly 100 acres five miles west of The Dalles in the Oregon Department of Forestry’s Central…

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office in partnership with SecureShred and NeighborImpact will host a free shredding event Saturday. This event…

Next month, the city of Bend will kick off a nearly two-year construction project to build a new sewer line down 27 th Street — a hub for…

The Bloom Project , a Bend-based, volunteer-driven nonprofit that provides fresh floral bouquets to hospice and palliative care patients, has…

Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley voiced their disappointment Monday as Senate colleagues rejected four pieces of gun legislation in the wake of the…

Beginning this month, the Oregon Lottery is launching “Responsible Gambling & You,” an online training program for lottery retailers…

With more teens obtaining driver’s licenses during the summer than any other season and an average of 220 auto-related teen deaths occurring…

On Tuesday, the traffic light at Venture Lane and South Century Drive in Sunriver will be shut off at 8:30 a.m. and will remain off for most of the…

The Bend-Redmond metro area is seventh in the nation in a ranking of urban areas Americans are most relocating to — and the only one in the top…

A Bend man who witnesses said earlier was speeding and making illegal passes struck another car head-on on Highway 97 south of La Pine Sunday night,…

A 24-year-old Redmond man was in critical condition at a Bend hospital Monday afternoon, the day after his off-road vehicle hit a bump and rolled…

Participants are being sought for a study at Oregon State University that hopes to answer a long-overdue question – does the use of multivitamin…