Month: March 2017

Residents of the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District may see reduced fire insurance rates as a result of a recently completed survey by the Insurance…

WARRENTON, Ore. (AP) – The U.S. Coast Guard helped rescue a diver near the entrance to Tillamook Bay. A Coast Guard spokesperson in Seattle…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon lawmakers are considering a new approach to addressing the nation’s student debt problem. Senate Bill 1034…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Democratic lawmakers in Salem say last week’s failure of the GOP health care overhaul hasn’t changed their plans…

Three Prineville teens escaped serious injury in the rollover crash of their car west of Prineville Monday morning, but all went to the hospital and…

Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, led a hearing Tuesday on reducing traffic fatalities in Oregon and…

A group of West Coast governors and mayors, and Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley took stands Tuesday in opposition to President Trump’s…

In conjunction with National Public Health Week in April and Mental Health Month in May, the Deschutes County Public Health Advisory Board is pleased…

(Updated: Adding economist background on what rates include, how compiled) Following the state’s lead, unemployment levels dropped…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon State Park officials say a record amount of people camping out may lead to a price hike for popular campground sites,…

Mid Oregon Credit Union, the member-owned financial institution headquartered in Bend, announced Tuesday that they have opened their seventh…

Around 40 to 50 people packed a room in the Deschutes Public Library on Monday evening for the first meeting of the High Desert Chapter for the…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A judge has sided with two environmental groups in a ruling that halts a timber sale in southern Oregon’s Umpqua…

Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Monday denounced the announcement by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions that the Trump administration…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A Portland police officer who fatally shot a 17-year-old boy last month testified that he warned the teen several times…

Like many in Bend, Kristin Holton has a familiar struggle. “Obviously I’m practiced at this, because I’ve been desperately on a…

RIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) – Napheesa Collier scored 28 points, Gabby Williams had 25 and UConn advanced to its 10th consecutive Final Four with a…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A 25-year-old man who has been allowed to stay in the U.S. because he was brought into the country illegally as a child…

Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel filed charges Monday against a Redmond man accused of hitting his girlfriend on the head with a gun…

A U.S. District Court judge approved a landmark settlement agreement Monday between people with disabilities and the Oregon Department of…