Month: April 2017

Central Oregon locals and visitors are invited to dance their Sundays away at the 2017 Bend Memorial Clinic Free Summer Sunday Concert Series. These…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say one of two teenagers arrested after a fatal shooting in a Portland park told a homicide detective they…

BAKER, Ore. (AP) – State wildlife officials are cutting in half the number of deer tags allowed for this fall’s hunting season in Baker…

A captain with the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District was injured in a roughly 40-foot fall during a Death Valley “canyoneering” trip…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Oregon’s unemployment rate has plunged to less than 4 percent. The state Employment Department said Tuesday the…

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) – An Ashland man remains missing a week after he walked away from home. Media outlets in southern Oregon report 86-year-old…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A grand jury has cleared a Marion County sheriff’s sergeant of wrongdoing after he shot at a man who injured him…

Central Oregon drug agents’ raid on a home north of Bend Friday night led to three arrests and the seizure of heroin and methamphetamine, as…

Several hundred Deschutes County residents asked Sen. Ron Wyden a variety of questions at a town hall Monday evening at Summit High School, and he…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A Eugene-based nonprofit is working to get a camp up and running in a secluded area in the Coast Range to house dozens of…

There was passionate testimony in Salem on Monday for and against two controversial gun bills as others watched the action, including a Redmond gun…

The four-day Lazy Rockin’ Stirrup Country Music Festival in Paulina has been approved to more than double its maximum capacity. “(The…

Before his Bend town hall meeting Monday evening, Sen. Ron Wyden appeared on NewsChannel 21 Fox at Four, talking about issues ranging from North…

The snow has melted at the lower elevations in Central Oregon, and the U.S. Forest Service is preparing for this year’s wildfire season.…

Beneficiary Saving Grace is in need of lightly used or new stuffed animals for their stuffed animal corral at the Balloons Over Bend Children’s…

(Updating with no verdict Monday) LAS VEGAS (AP) – A jury has ended a full day of deliberations without a verdict in the federal trial of six…

Bend-La Pine Schools said Monday it is planning for a surge of new students next fall, specifically anticipating more than 1,100 new kindergartners.…

Current wildfire policy can’t adequately protect people, homes and ecosystems from the longer, hotter fire seasons climate change is causing,…

Crews from High Desert Aggregate and Paving under contract to ODOT are working on a $3 million project to repave and improve U.S. Highway 26 at…

Trentyn Tennant, a 10th grader at La Pine High School, recently spent a week at the Washington Capitol working as a page for the Washington State…