Month: June 2016

Flag Day, June 14 , was celebrated with the groundbreaking for the long-awaited Oregon State Police Fallen Trooper Memorial, to be built in front of…

Deschutes County will hold a public hearing Wednesday morning on itsproposed $341.4 million budget for fiscal year 2016/17. The hearing will begin at…

With 56 percent of summer travelers driving to their destination and gas prices having risen nearly 40 percent in the last four months, the personal…

Bend firefighters extinguished a fire that tore through a storage shed and several Dumpsters behind a northwest Bend restaurant early Monday morning,…

A short road segment of Forest Road 30 at the junction with Crazy Creek, about 5 miles east of Big Summit Prairie, will be closed beginning…

Bend motorists are advised to avoid Northwest Broadway Street between St. Helens Place and Florida Avenue this week, as Cascade Natural Gas crews are…

Bend police released two surveillance images Saturday in hopes of finding two suspects caught on camera stealing items from at least two parked…

A missing La Pine man who Deschutes County sheriff’s deputies had asked the public for help finding has been found and is okay, officers said…

The American Red Cross Cascades Region said it sent disaster volunteers to assist four people displaced by a house fire early Saturday morning on the…

Bend police on Saturday confirmed the details of a disturbing encounter reported by a young boy on the porch of his NorthWest Crossing home with a…

The local band Corner Gospel Explosion was supposed to be playing at Bite of Bend Friday evening, but the concert was canceled due to a horrible…

Recovery from the Great Recession took nearly eight years in Central Oregon. The region was particularly hard-hit due to the bursting of the housing…

Craigslist can be used for everything from selling clothing to job hunting, but real estate agents in Central Oregon are warning potential renters to…

AChupacabramoved in at the Oregon Zoo this week, arriving in PortlandThursdayafternoon and quickly making himself at home in the carnivore ward of…

Central Oregon’s canine ambassador has died. Fifteen-year-old Maty was a three-legged dog loved by many throughout the community. The…

A Madras mother pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree mistreatment in the death of her 1-year old daughter, Katerina Austria. Raine Austria…

A 42-year-old Bend man arrested last week on charges of sexually explicit interactions with a Florida girl on a smartphone app was arrested again…

A 21-year-old Bend man who decided to climb a nearly vertical wall at Hidden Forest Cave southeast of Bend Thursday night fell 10 to 12 feet and was…

Three members of the Oregon Wing of Civil Air Patrol are receiving national awards at the CAP National Convention in Nashville, Tenn., in August.…

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday passed the Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill, which includsd an amendment…