Month: February 2017

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) – Dillon Brooks hit a 3-pointer with 0.2 seconds to play to cap a comeback from 16 points down and No. 6 Oregon beat California 68-65 on Wednesday night to keep its hopes alive for a Pac-12 title. The Ducks (25-4, 14-2) trailed by 16 points early in the second half and

KEIZER, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say a woman was rescued from the Willamette River near Salem Thursday afternoon. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office says deputies were called at about 4 p.m. Wednesday to respond to a person screaming in the river near Keizer. A Keizer Police officer spotted the woman and kept watch while a

After all that snow and rain, the water levels in Central Oregon reservoirs might surprise some people. “The three Deschutes upper basin reservoirs are at or below average for this time of year,” Deschutes Basin Watermaster Jeremy Giffin said Wednesday, “So, we will not be filling Crane Prairie, Crescent Lake or Wickiup (reservoirs) this year.”

A landslide early Wednesday morning closed U.S. Highway 101 in both directions five miles south of Cannon Beach. One lane was reopened with traffic flaggers by evening, but officials said it would take until at least Thursday to fully clear and reopen it. Slides and snow also closed Interstate 5 at the Oregon-California border for

If there is one winner of Wednesday night’s Powerball jackpot, they’d take home the tenth-largest prize ever given out. The multi-state Powerball prize starts at $40 million and goes up from there, and it currently stands at $403 million. After you buy it, you’ll want to make sure only you can claim the prize, so

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon’s attorney general says she has staffers strategizing how to fight back if the federal government tries to withhold funds to force compliance with conservative policies, like on abortion. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum told The Associated Press this week that if federal funding to Planned Parenthood is cut, Oregon will push

A 24-year-old Redmond man has been arrested on assault and other charges, accused of firing a gunshot at his home, sending the bullet through a wall and fence and into a neighbor’s home, where it bounced off the head of a woman watching TV, officers said. Deschutes County 911 dispatchers received a call around 9:45

(updated with three arrests) PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Protesters demanding the resignation of Mayor Ted Wheeler shut down a Portland City Council meeting Wednesday morning and three later were arrested. Activist Mimi German organized the protest that led to a lengthy recess Wednesday. She said her group would shut down City Hall until its concerns

(Updated: Adding more info on video) Two weeks after the theft of thousands of rounds of rifle and pistol ammunition from a locked building at Crater Lake National Park, authorities have raised their reward to $5,000 and issued a blurry security video of a pickup truck sought in the case. Rangers and special agents with

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon’s economy boasted another strong year of employment, population and wage growth in 2016, rolling an extra $102 million in revenue into state coffers than previously expected, a new revenue forecast out Wednesday said.. State economists told lawmakers in Salem that the economic gains were seen across the state, and the

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) – A fishing club in Oregon is asking officials to ban jet-powered boat engines from a portion of the upper Rogue River. The Mail Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2m88t7G ) that the Medford-based Rogue Flyfishers Association and riverside landowner Greg Layton have filed a petition with the Oregon State Marine Board to ban jetboats

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon farm regulators may reduce the number of inspections they conduct for federal officials so they can catch up on a backlog of state inspections. The Capital Press reports (http://bit.ly/2m7Qm1H ) that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration pays the Oregon Department of Agriculture $700,000 per year to make sure food

(Update: Adding link to meeting materials) OSU-Cascades discussed long-range expansion plans at a public meeting Tuesday evening. The school is seeking public feedback on two different footprint options, but on Tuesday, focused on only the larger of the two. The university hopes to expand beyond the current 10-acre campus site. The two options include a

Construction of Bend’s South Third Street sidewalks project is set to resume at the end of February, city officials said Tuesday.. This past fall, the city of Bend work on South Third Street between Wilson Avenue and Powers Road to enhance accessibility for everyone and to improve Bend’s overall transportation system. This section of Third

BOYS PREP BASKETBALL Aloha 54, Sunset 49 Ashland 48, Crater 36 Banks 63, Tillamook 49 Cascade 70, North Marion 65 Centennial 64, Reynolds 50 Central Catholic 66, Barlow 62 Churchill 58, Marist 47 Clackamas 61, David Douglas 52 Corvallis 56, Central 55 Cottage Grove 34, Sisters 21 Estacada 41, Gladstone 36 Forest Grove 56, Sprague

(Update: Works begins to fill sinkholes) Work was underway Tuesday to fill dozens of sinkholes on a popular Tumalo recreation site where winter weather has created some dangerous conditions and closures at the former pumice mine.. The 540-acre parcel that’s a popular hiking and dog-walking spot for neighbors developed numerous sinkholes this wet, snowy winter,

A 31-year-old Spokane man was arraigned Tuesday in The Dalles on three counts of second-degree manslaughter, reckless driving and other charges in a Dec. 26 crash on U.S. Highway 26 northwest of Warm Springs that killed three people and injured four others, authorities said. Nathan James Verhaeghe was indicted last Friday by a Wasco County

A 43-year-old Prineville man was arrested by Bend police at his home Tuesday on 75 luring and sex abuse counts, accused of going online and arranging a sexual encounter with a 15-year-old juvenile at a Bend hotel last month, police said. Bend police officers and detectives learned on Feb. 14 that Christopher Michael Stout, 43,

You’ve seen hookah and cigar lounges, but did you ever think you’d see marijuana lounges? Oregon Senate Bill 307 would make it legal to smoke marijuana at temporary events. That’s the language used in the bill, but it boils down to this — the pot lounges that you hear about in places like Amsterdam would

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Opening statements began Tuesday in the second trial stemming from last year’s armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Eastern Oregon. A jury last fall found standoff leader Ammon Bundy not guilty of conspiring to impede workers during the 41-day protest over federal land policy. Prosecutors are now trying