Month: May 2017

This past week marked the first part of FireFree events in Bend, Sunriver and the Box Canyon Transfer Site in Jefferson County for residents to…

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) – Authorities have identified the corrections deputies who shot and killed an inmate at a hospital in Vancouver,…

With the warm weather returning and vegetation drying out, the Bend Fire Department anticipates that Central Oregon fire chiefs will close down…

GRESHAM, Ore. (AP) – Police say a woman and her 9-year-old son suffered life-threatening injuries in a shooting at a Gresham apartment complex.…

The record-setting wet spring in the Pacific Northwest – preceded by a snowy winter – has brought a variety of plant diseases to…

The American Red Cross and Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire Department are partnering to save lives by installing smoke alarms in homes that need them in…

Here are the results of Friday’s KTVZ.COM Poll on whether folks take part in the U.S. Bank Pole Pedal Paddle, and how. A vast majority said…

Members of the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District and a few community members gathered together recently to make 511 bracelets in honor of district…

(Update: Correcting day of crash) A semi-truck rollover crash blocked or restricted traffic on Highway 22 west of Detroit for hours Sunday afternoon,…

(Update with Pacific Power info) A string of lengthy power outages hit thousands of Pacific Power customers in Bend and the Metolius area on Sunday,…

A 26-year-old Bend man was arrested on a DUII charge and taken to the hospital early Monday after a rollover crash into a rock embankment along the…

Cascade Natural Gas crews are wrapping up the downtown Bend gas line replacement project, and repaving should be complete this week, officials said.…

FOREST GROVE, Ore. (AP) – Educators and students in parts of the U.S. are working to combat an issue many grade and secondary schools have…

(Update: Comments from neighbor, fire inspector; video of scene) A travel trailer was destroyed by a fire Sunday afternoon in Deschutes River Woods,…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland fire and rescue officials say a fire forced nine people from a Southeast Portland apartment building in the…

Fuels specialists plan to burn 108 acres Monday along Cascade Lakes Highway, about a half-mile northeast of the Cascade Lakes Welcome Station and…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Elsie Mathews entered the cavernous 16th-floor courtroom of Oregon’s chief federal judge, sat down at a table in…

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) – A Grants Pass man was sentenced in federal court to three years of probation for excavating and damaging an archaeological…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The child welfare director of the Oregon Department of Human Services has resigned after less than a year on the job. The…

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) – Police say they have identified a man who was shot to death at a mobile home in Springfield as 36-year-old Steven Ray…