Month: May 2017

Due to significant snow depths near Devils Lake, the Deschutes County Road Department estimates that a full opening of the Cascade Lakes Highway…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police say a 34-year-old man was shot and killed outside a Beaverton strip club. Sgt. Vance Stimler of the Washington…

Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., joined their colleagues this week in reintroducing the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act. The…

Transitioning into adulthood can bring big changes and intense challenges. In Oregon, suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth aged…

Julie Johnson, who has spent time working in Burns and Warm Springs, is the Oregon Health Authority’s new director of tribal affairs, serving…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Authorities have arrested a 38-year-old man in connection with the stabbing death of a Portland man Tuesday night.…

(Update: Correcting number of emails) DUFUR, Ore. (AP) – A Sherman County organic farm has submitted a weed management plan before the issues…

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) – A pregnant southern Oregon woman tearfully apologized before she was sentenced to more than six years in prison for a…

(Updated with more details from Leriche) A 28-year-old Warm Springs man has pleaded no contest to assault and DUII charges and was sentenced to five…

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) – Authorities say Clark County correctional deputies fatally shot a 66-year-old jail inmate who was receiving treatment…

Here are the results of Wednesday’s KTVZ.COM Poll, in which we asked about what percentage of your income goes to housing: Do you spend less…

(Update: Adding Bend planner comment) The proposed nomination of downtown Bend’s century-old Troy Field to the National Register of Historic…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The Bonneville Power Administration has scrapped its controversial plan to build a high-voltage transmission line near…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – A Eugene proposal out for public review would no longer allow people at city parks or on city-owned open space to drink…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A 42-year-old man who was driving with nearly bald tires when he killed a cyclist on a Portland bridge has been sentenced…

It was a cataclysmic event that rocked the Pacific Northwest, and still reverberates in the minds of many today, 37 years later. On May 18, 1980,…

The Bend City Council on Wednesday night authorized a $2.77 million agreement with Knife River Corporation for street preservation work this summer.…

The average American household earned $55,775 in 2015. So where are the best cities to live on the median household income? In a new study,…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police have identified the person found dead Tuesday night in Southeast Portland. Portland police say 53-year-old Brian…

In Part 3 of our series on some of Central Oregon’s most inspiring women, we meet a Bend woman who has used the unlikely combination of cancer…