Month: July 2016

At the 2016 Netroots Nation Annual Conference, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley announced Friday his plan to introduce legislation that would…

Access to the Sparks Lake area is reopened with the completion of a traffic bypass, which had closed access to the area. Construction of the bypass…

A significant milestone is occurring next week at the Farewell Bend Bridge over the Deschutes River, when the new bridge sections will be hoisted…

The city of Redmond unveiled plans this week to build a new regional interagency wildfire dispatch center that will be leased out to the U.S. Forest…

Governor Kate Brown on Friday will announce “Oregonians United to End Gun Violence,” a plan to address gun violence in Oregon and across…

The Bend City Council is holding a special meeting at 4:30 p.m. onThursday, July 21, at Council Chambers, City Hall, 710 NW Wall Street, to hear…

Last Friday, Redmond police officers responded to a report of a fawn caught in a fence off Highway 97. They helped free the fawn from the fence, and…

Backed by a broad coalition of voting rights groups, Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley and Reps. Earl Blumenauer and David Cicilline, D-R.I.,…

An 11-year-old boy fell into a Wichita, Kansas, creek in late May, and a Central Oregon company sprang into action after getting a special request.…

Gov. Kate Brown saw and learned about the preparations Central Oregon community leaders are making in case of a natural disaster during a visit…

Deschutes National Forest fuels specialists on Thursday burned piles of woody debris left over from commercial thinning operations for the…

Members of Oregon’s congressional delegation introduced Thursday the bipartisan Community Protection and Preparedness Act (H.R. 5786),…

Bend’s most famous brewery is going virtual. Deschutes Brewery released a new virtual reality experience Wednesday for its 28th anniversary.…

A grant from the U.S Department of Agriculture could enable planners at Oregon State University–Cascades to move closer to achieving net zero…

During these dog days of summer, a new poll from PEMCO Insurance reveals that Northwest residents are more likely to help a canine cooped up in a car…

Legislation by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., to provide much-needed certainty for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test sites in Oregon and nationwide to…

St. Charles Foundation and St. Charles Health System invite members of the community to nominate outstanding local physicians for this year’s…

Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., said Wednesday that his plan to remove gray wolves from the federal endangered species list has been approved by the U.S.…

Bend fire crews doused a small brushfire along the Deschutes River on Wednesday that investigators said was caused by an abandoned campfire on Bend…

There are still active telephone scammers working the Central Oregon area, saying they are calling from the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office…