Month: February 2017

The Redmond Police Department has begun an investigation on Tuesday trying to figure out how a hacker impersonated the Redmond school district superintendent via email and got about a thousand employees’ tax information. The school district discovered the data breach on Monday and quickly sent a letter to all affected workers, outlining what happened and

As weather breaks and snow begins melting at lower elevations, more hunters are expected to take to Oregon’s outdoors — not for the chance to harvest a deer or elk, but to look for their shed antlers. But one prominent member of the sport is recommending shed hunters delay their search awhile longer. “I’ve lived

A bill in the Oregon House that would make the transition process a little easier for transgender Oregonians. House Bill 2673 would streamline the process of changing your name and identity. People from all over the state, including in Central Oregon, are making their voices heard in support of it, as protests against the Trump

A Southern California man who fled an Oregon State Police traffic stop on Highway 97 north of Bend early Tuesday led a trooper on a high-speed chase that was terminated after a couple of miles, troopers said. The driver eventually did a U-turn, heading south on the wrong side of the highway through Bend, and

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Ammon Bundy is testifying for the defense in the conspiracy trial of four men who followed his call to occupy a national wildlife refuge in Oregon to protest federal control of Western lands and the imprisonment of two ranchers convicted of setting fires on public land. Bundy testified Tuesday in U.S.

Supporters, friends and leaders of Bethlehem Inn gathered on Thursday, February 23rd at Deschutes Brewery in Bend, to celebrate a significant milestone in the organization’s effort to raise funds for a new and larger facility. At the event, guests learned that the Bethlehem Inn Transforming Lives Together Capital Campaign has raised $4,668,700, exceeding its goal

Citizen tips and a brief chase on foot led to the arrest Monday evening of a 46-year-old Prineville man accused of thefts from several Prineville-area businesses over a four-day period, police said Tuesday. Donovan Lee Adkins, 46, was spotted around 6:45 p.m. in the area of Northwest Deer and Third Streets after being identified as

Oregon’s unemployment rate dropped to 4.3 percent in January, from 4.5 percent in December, the lowest unemployment rate since comparable records began in 1976, the Oregon Employment Department reported Tuesday. Revised figures show Oregon’s unemployment rate has been on a declining trend over the past seven years. Outside of the past 12 months, the only

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Community activists and union leaders say federal immigration officers stopped two vans carrying workers headed to a forest to pick an ornamental shrub, detained 19 of them and then took 10 of them away. Pedro Sosa, who works with the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group, said 10 of the

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Salem City Council has unanimously approved a resolution declaring Oregon’s capital an “inclusive city.” Under the resolution approved Monday night, Salem would not allow city resources to be used to enforce federal immigration law. The resolution brought forth by Councilor Tom Andersen resembled the idea of sanctuary cities, which have

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A proposed downtown dog ban in Eugene is being criticized as discriminatory against homeless people and impossible to enforce. The Register-Guard reports ( http://bit.ly/2lPXO0f ) about two dozen people spoke against the idea at a City Council meeting Monday evening. The proposed ordinance would ban owners from bringing their dogs to

The Redmond School District faces a massive data breach after an unknown individual impersonated the superintendent over email and obtained all employees’ names, Social Security numbers, mailing addresses and wage and tax withholding information. Last Friday, one district employee received an email from someone who was pretending to be Superintendent Mike McIntosh. The person requested

The Los Angeles-based Milken Institute has released the findings to its most recent Best Performing Small Cities study, affirming the Bend-Redmond metro area as No. 1 in the country. The Milken Institute has tracked and evaluated the success of metropolitan areas in its Best-Performing Cities index since 1999, highlighting urban regions that are outperforming their

Sometimes a small step is needed to put bigger change into motion, and the Bend Park and Recreation District is doing that with a project at Drake Park along Mirror Pond. The park district said Monday it is moving ahead with designs for realigning the river-right banks of Mirror Pond from the Galveston Avenue Bridge

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Physicians say a 4-month-old Iranian girl with a rare heart condition who was affected by President Donald Trump’s travel ban is “out of the woods” and making good progress after her life-saving surgery. Fatemeh Reshad and her parents’ plans to enter the United States with a travel visa for the infant’s

More than two months after a Prineville man’s disappearance south of Bend sparked a multiagency air and ground search effort, a hiker has found the remains of the retired California sheriff’s deputy who apparently walked into a snowstorm for help after his pickup truck got stuck in the snow and succumbed to the elements, authorities

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police are investigating after finding a man and a dog dead inside a Portland residence. Portland police said in a news release that officers responded to a report of a dead man and dog inside a home in Northeast Portland Monday afternoon. Officers discovered the man and dog. Police say homicide

The Bend-La Pine Schools Board of Directors appointed Carrie McPherson Douglass to represent Zone 7 (at-large) during a school board meeting Monday night, choosing her from among 26 applicants and four finalists to fill the remaining months of departing board member Nori Juba’s term. Douglass is currently a managing partner at Education Cities, a national

A new solar farm could be coming to Bend, and there’s a public hearing on it Tuesday night at 6 p.m. at the Deschutes County offices at 1300 NW Wall Street. The company applying to build it is Bear Creek and Solar Center, and they’re sending a representative to Bend for the meeting Tuesday night.

Oregon State Police on Monday identified a Madras man flown to a Bend hospital and cited on DUII and reckless driving charges after his SUV crossed into the oncoming lane of Highway 26 in Madras late Saturday night and collided head-on with a semi-truck. Troopers responded shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday to the reported head-on