Month: August 2016

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., wrote Tuesday to Social Security Commissioner Carolyn Colvin to address the new system at the Social Security…

The 2016 fire season is off to a promising start, in terms of far fewer acres of state-protected land going up in smoke, the Oregon Department of…

Firefighters have made great success toward containing the Juntura Complex of three lightning-sparked wildfires in southeast Oregon, but better…

The city of Bend is rebuilding the roundabout at Northeast Franklin Avenue and 8 th /9 th Street, prompting about two weeks of detours, starting next…

The American Red Cross on Tuesday urged blood donors to give in the final weeks of summer to help overcome a critical summer blood shortage. The…

A 30-year-old paddleboarder who came to the rescue of a woman who was struggling in the Deschutes River near the dangerous Newport Avenue Bridge…

A Sweet Home woman was killed Monday afternoon when her pickup truck left U.S. Highway 20 and overturned, Oregon State Police reported. OSP troopers…

A Salem man was killed on Highway 126 near Belknap Springs Sunday afternoon when an oncoming vehicle came into his lane and he lost control trying to…

Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel announced Monday he’d determined that no crime was committed when a La Pine woman left her older…

The Deschutes Land Trust and Upper Deschutes Watershed Council announced Monday the start of a major, multi-year stream restoration project at the…

Family members of a Portland college student who disappeared in the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness Area nearly two weeks ago after official search efforts…

Youwill see it at this summer’s Oregon State Fair. It will also be on display atthis week’s Deschutes County Fair and the one next week…

Redmond police have turned to the public for any leads to help find a man who apparently tried to abduct a 5-year-old boy from his family at the…

The Bureau of Land Management’s Vale District reported Monday it is fighting several fires from Baker to Malheur County. In total, more than 20…

Bethlehem Inn announced Monday an urgent need for food in support of its Emergency Meal Program, saying the shelter’s pantries and freezers are…

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans in his or her golden years is still working, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Twenty years ago, only about one in…

Amid progress on the lines of the Bybee Creek Fire, Crater Lake National Park lifted the Level 1 evacuation notice for Rim Village and Park…

A new analysis suggests that massive earthquakes on northern sections of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, affecting areas of the Pacific Northwest that…

Cascade Natural Gas crews working on the Bend Westside Replacement Project have completed the heavy work on the stretch of Northwest Broadway Street…

Three teens were taken to hospitals early Saturday, including a Redmond 18-year-old arrested for DUII and reckless driving in a rollover crash south…