Month: August 2017

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The city of Portland will buy property currently occupied by a strip club to tear it down and build 200 to 300 affordable…

Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel released a report Wednesday that documents the results of a recent survey that gauged county…

Roads are about to be blocked in the area hundreds of homeless people living east of Redmond call home. “Where are we going? What are we going…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a goat that escaped from a Portland farm. Sgt. Dave…

MONMOUTH, Ore. (AP) – Officials say a baby was killed in a fire that destroyed a home in Monmouth. The Statesman Journal reports…

With increased fire activity and an influx of visitors coming to Central Oregon for the solar eclipse, public land managers for the Prineville…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed legislation that increases the legal age for using and buying tobacco products from 18…

ENTERPRISE, Ore. (AP) – Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife authorities shot and killed two adult wolves in response to multiple attacks on…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Oregon Secretary of State Dennis Richardson has rejected an initiative petition that sought to make it easier to boost…

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) – A former southern Oregon sheriff convicted of using excessive force against three suspects has quickly completed his…

The Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District has placed a new water tender in service at the Camp Sherman fire station. The water tender is a 2005 model…

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is removing hazard trees on the Deschutes River Trail upriver from Tumalo State Park’s day use area.…

(Update: Rain eases threat, task force call-up canceled) Welcome rain on a new, threatening fire in southwest Oregon means a calling off of outside…

COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) – Police arrested a Coos County sheriff’s deputy accused of beating his wife.   The World newspaper reports…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A Portland industrial shop has been court ordered to pay nearly $300,000 for failing to trim tree branches that blocked a…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon Health Authority director has resigned at the request of the governor after a communication plan became public…

The nation is facing a shortage of police officers, and Central Oregon’s largest city is not immune to the problem. With high risks, a…

The number of visitors to Central Oregon’s public lands keeps growing. “We’re estimating this year we could approach 4 million…

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) – State health officials say radioactive plutonium and americium have been found in air samples collected where workers…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Former Oregon receiver Darren Carrington pleaded “no contest” to a misdemeanor charge of driving under the…