Month: June 2017

(Update: Contractor says low radiation no threat to human health) SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – A cleanup contractor says the release of radiation that…

DENVER (AP) – The first recreational pot market in the U.S. was set Thursday to notch another marijuana first when Colorado approves using…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – The Eugene mayor and a Lane County commissioner are urging state lawmakers to approve $100 million in immediate financing…

The Autzen Foundation has awarded Jericho Road of Redmond $5,000 to help support programs for homeless and hungry people in the Redmond area. The…

(Update: More from store owner, police0 As summer road projects ramp up in Bend, police are seeing more drivers getting creative in getting around…

ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) – Southern Oregon University lost $1.9 million in an email scheme. The Mail Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2rPGdXC )…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Multnomah County and Portland city leaders say they will spend $120,000 to study creating a metropolitan air pollution…

(Update with critic’s reaction) WASHINGTON (AP) – Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is ordering a review of federal efforts to conserve the…

(Update: Adding photo, correcting time) A La Pine shop sustained heavy damage in a fire Wednesday afternoon that crews kept from reaching a nearby…

The Oregon Department of Transportation has awarded a $4.5 million contract to High Desert Aggregate and Paving to repave about 15 miles of U.S.…

The U.S. Forest Service is waiving fees at day-use recreation sites in Oregon and Washington this Saturday , June 10 th , in recognition of National…

On Wednesday May 24, the Sisters City Council unanimously voted to accept the Request for Qualifications prepared by city staff, with support from…

David Fair of La Pine joined the Army when he was 17. At the age of 18, he was deployed to Vietnam to serve in the war as a medic. And a high school…

A former south Deschutes County couple has pleaded guilty and were sentenced to more than 40 years in prison, with no early release, for “the…

The Oregon Senate joined with the House and a group of Salem Girl Scouts to support a new law protecting Good Samaritans from criminal or civil…

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) – Authorities have released the names of the officers involved in the fatal shooting of a bank robbery suspect in…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Authorities arrested a 24-year-old man accused of cutting a passenger with a butter knife on a light-rail train near…

Here are the results of Tuesday’s KTVZ.COM Poll: Would you support term limits for state lawmakers, as GOP gubernatorial candidate Bud Pierce…

The city of Bend is moving forward with the next big step in its urban growth boundary plans, having received state approval late last year. At…

While Central Oregon’s vacancy rates at hotels and state parks are reportedly at or near max capacity for the solar eclipse on August 21 ,…