Month: October 2016

An Oregon Department of Corrections prison employee was arrested Wednesday by Oregon State Police on numerous charges of custodial sexual misconduct.…

The Redmond Municipal Airport will conduct a full response disaster drill Friday morning, officials said Thursday evening. The disaster drill will be…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff defendant Shawna Cox took the witness stand in her own defense Thursday,…

The Humane Society of Central Oregon would like to offer some pet safety tips for the high winds expected in Central Oregon over the next few days.…

November represents National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, and – in commemoration – from Nov. 7 through Nov. 11, The Bloom Projec t…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Columbia County grand jury has indicted three people on aggravated murder charges in the death of a Portland woman.…

The 2016 Fire Season for lands protected by Oregon Department of Forestry’s Central Oregon District will terminate at 12:01 a.m. Friday, the…

BANDON, Ore. (AP) — A fisherman lost in the fog drove his boat onto a beach in Bandon. The Coos County Sheriff’s Office says 57-year-old…

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — Residents of a trailer park in eastern Oregon have been without clean drinking water for five months. Nancy Shaw, owner…

The Oregon Department of Education released report cards Thursday for the state’s 1,239 schools and 197 school districts. Officials said the…

STAYTON, Ore. (AP) — The Marion County Sheriff’s Office says a bicyclist died after getting hit by a minivan near Stayton. A spokesman…

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — The Northwest’s first tribal eagle aviary is opening on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation. The…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon standoff figure Ryan Payne wants to withdraw his guilty plea. The Montana man admitted in July he conspired with…

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) — A Springfield man who installed a large speaker on his rooftop and played a pro-hate message on loop has pleaded no…

GARDINER, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say human bones found along the bank of the Umpqua River near the Oregon Coast Saturday were those of a…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) –Portland police say they arrested 10 people who were protesting at City Hall over a new police contract that raised…

A 35-year-old Redmond man was arrested at Bend’s Sawyer Park last Friday afternoon, accused of trying to meet and have sex with a 15-year-old…

Workers at the Oregon Department of Human Services are largely proud of the work the agency does, but significant numbers of workers feel overworked,…

The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday vacated the 2012 conviction of a Bend man who’s in prison for raping a woman he met on a dating…

Central Oregon haunt designer Sheri Stirewalt scares people for a living. But in her 11th season working for the Deschutes County Scaregrounds,…