Month: June 2016

Summerhas officially arrived, and the Oregon Department of Agriculture is offeringadvice to pet owners who can take several steps themselves in providingrelief from fleas. An array ofpesticide products on the marketare among the tools that can be used to effectively control fleas, butthey come with the usual caution of needing to be handled properly. Ifoccasional

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 reported Tuesday. Slowing job growth was largely tied to weak seasonal hiring in May, according to Regional Economist Damon Runberg. “The labor supply continues to tighten, with the unemployment

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 chemicals at school facilities and sharing any results with the state and parents. The move stems from the recent discovery of elevated lead levels in drinking water

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 #44 on River Road in Eugene and won by matching four of the five numbers and the power ball. As the Powerball jackpot continues to grow to $184 million for Wednesday night’s

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. Charles Bend, where he remained Monday, in critical condition. With a love for riding, Rojas is an employee at WildHorse Harley-Davidson in Bend. His co-workers are now planning

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 said he committed with his older brother, who wore a skeleton mask and pulled a gun on another employee. Last Thursday, Timothy Edward Walker was arrested on charges he was the

The Oregon Marine Board, law enforcement from 32 counties and the Oregon State Police will be participating in Operation Dry Water this coming weekend, part of a nationally coordinated effort to reduce the number of accidents and fatalities related to boating under the influence of intoxicants. Already this year, serious impairment-related boating accidents and fatalities

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., announced Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will make $52 million in loans available to rural electric co-ops through the Rural Energy Savings Program. RESP is a program designed by Merkley to allow rural electric co-ops to offer their customers low-interest loans from USDA to provide affordable financing for energy

A wildfire that ignited Monday afternoon burned nearly 100 acres five miles west of The Dalles in the Oregon Department of Forestry’s Central Oregon District, the agency said Tuesday. It was originally reported by crews that the fire was roughly 45 acres; however, remapping has shown the wildfire is larger officials said. That was not

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office in partnership with SecureShred and NeighborImpact will host a free shredding event Saturday. This event will take place at the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Sisters substation, located at 703 N. Larch Avenue, starting at 10:00 am and concluding at 12:00 pm. Shredding The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office and SecureShred of

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 medical, retail, employment and residential users, the city announced Monday as it invited the public to two meetings to learn more and get questions answered. “This will

The Bloom Project , a Bend-based, volunteer-driven nonprofit that provides fresh floral bouquets to hospice and palliative care patients, has received a $5,000 grant from the Vital Life , a Marquis and Consonus Foundation. The grant supports the organization as it donates bouquets to hospice and palliative care patients in their homes and care facilities.

Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley voiced their disappointment Monday as Senate colleagues rejected four pieces of gun legislation in the wake of the Orlando shootings, while Gov. Kate Brown thanked the Oregon lawmakers for their votes in support. Here’s Wyden’s statement, in full: “The complete refusal of the far right to take a single

Beginning this month, the Oregon Lottery is launching “Responsible Gambling & You,” an online training program for lottery retailers and their employees, the agency said Tuesday. “This training is one facet of the Lottery’s far-reaching responsible gambling program and illustrates our commitment to working at every level of the business to mitigate harm that can

With more teens obtaining driver’s licenses during the summer than any other season and an average of 220 auto-related teen deaths occurring every month during the same period, the personal-finance website WalletHub Tuesday followed up on its analysis of the Best & Worst States for Summer Road Trips with an in-depth look at 2016’s Best

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 day. The Deschutes County Road Department will be working with a contractor to remove trees in the area. Flaggers will be controlling the intersection, which may

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 10 not in the Southeast U.S., according to an analysis of new Census Bureau data. Business Insider recently looked at the new Census Bureau estimates of population

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, killing himself and a 10-year-old Idaho girl in the other car, Oregon State Police said Monday. The girl’s parents also were seriously injured, while her brother had minor injuries,

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 “numerous times” on BLM land east of Redmond, Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies said. A passenger in the side-by-side UTV (utility task vehicle) apparently was unhurt, they added. Redmond police were

Participants are being sought for a study at Oregon State University that hopes to answer a long-overdue question – does the use of multivitamin supplements really improve the nutritional status, and ultimately the health, of elderly adults? Oddly enough, almost no research has been done that measures what improvements in nutritional status actually occur when