Month: September 2016

Debate season is upon us, and presidential debate watch parties in Central Oregon Monday night were as spirited as the candidates. Hillary Clinton…

Oregon’s sheriffs and police chiefs announced Monday they will support changes in state laws to make user-amount drug possession charges…

A federal lawsuit regarding Edwin Mays’ death in the Deschutes County Jail in December 2014 has been revised to seek a larger amount –…

On Monday evening, the Crook County Sheriff is hosting the first of seven public meetings to lay out his case for voters to back a bond measure that…

A Bend man was recovering at home Monday from injuries suffered in a fall while hiking on the northeast side of Broken Top Sunday morning, prompting…

A garage fire spread and destroyed a southeast Bend home late Sunday afternoon, with booms heard over a wide area likely from tires exploding,…

A fire that broke out in a shop northeast of Redmond spread quickly and heavily damaged an adjacent manufactured home Saturday afternoon, but a…

A crash on Highway 97 in Redmond Saturday evening sent two people to the hospital with injuries, one by helicopter, and tied up traffic, police said.…

Fire managers on the Ochoco National Forest plan to take advantage of recent precipitation to ignite two prescribed burns next week. Recent moisture…

Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel said Friday he’s launched an online community survey in an effort to better understand…

Workers under contract with Knife River Corp. will be closing the north and southbound fast lanes on the Highway 97 Lava Butte project starting…

One of five teens convicted in a Redmond-area woman’s brutal murder 15 years ago received a new life sentence Thursday in a Deschutes County…

A Bend woman is among a dozen owed thousands of dollars after a surrogacy center in the Portland area suddenly shut down. After the business shut…

Oregon farmworkers are joining advocates across the nation to petition the Environmental Protection Agency, calling on them to ban the use of a toxic…

With the cost of housing squeezing family budgets across the country, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released draft…

Crook County School District announced Thursday that lead testing found “the water supply in our school facilities is safe for our students,…

In Week 3 of our suicide prevention campaign, Let’s Talk, we are continuing to talk about suicide from a parent’s perspective. The pain…

A car went over the center line and collided head-on with a semi-truck on Highway 97 south of Madras Wednesday evening, seriously injuring two people…

With consistently cooler nights, reduced fire activity around the Northwest and fewer human-caused wildfires of late, fire restrictions are being…

The Bend City Council gave its final approval to the Urban Growth Boundary plan Wednesday night, a unanimous vote on a short, positive agenda item…