Month: September 2017

Oregon employers will see a key portion of their workers’ compensation costs drop by an average of 14 percent in 2018, the state Department of…

The Redmond Municipal Airport will proudly unveil a 100-by-60-inch hand-stitched American flag quilt Thursday morning. The American flag quilt was…

Central Oregon Partnerships for Youth (COPY), a program of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, is offering a class to prepare volunteers to…

TROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say trails affected by a wildfire in the Columbia River Gorge might be closed for months. Dawn Stender,…

Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement announcing that he will cosponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All legislation,…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A federal judge has given a blogger until noon Wednesday to delete information he published about the confidential…

HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) – A Hillsboro mother has been charged with child neglect after authorities say she left her two young children alone in a…

Interstate 84 in the Columbia River Gorge remains an active evacuation zone; the Eagle Creek Fire is still burning, having blackened more than 33,000…

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) – Authorities in Oregon say an elderly couple reported missing Sept. 3 have been found alive, but a 70-year-old neighbor…

Medicare spent more than $1 billion over a five-year period on a high-priced drug that has not been proven more effective for a collection of…

Public transit planners should soon be rolling toward more informed decision making and better service thanks to a partnership between Oregon State…

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) – A group of baristas who wear bikinis at work have sued a Washington state city, saying two recently passed ordinances…

(Update: Sunday fire reports) A new wildfire on state-protected private land about 20 miles north of Prineville was stopped by air and ground crews…

The Coast Guard said it suspended the search Sunday night for a missing Canadian man whose wife reportedly saw him fall off an 800-foot cliff at…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Police have arrested seven people during protests in downtown Portland. Hundreds of people turned out Sunday to oppose a…

Just over a year ago, on August 26, 2016, a 37-year old Bend man, Lorenzo Perez, was told his kidneys were rapidly failing. “He keeps thinking…

Bend Heroes Foundation has invited volunteers from the veterans community, Bend Police Department, Bend Fire Department, Oregon State Police and…

Oregon’s Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and Reps. Earl Blumenauer, Suzanne Bonamici, Peter DeFazio, Kurt Schrader and Greg Walden on Friday…

PORTLAND, Ore. – Amidst a week of disasters, the news of a decrease in hunger brings a glimmer of hope for Oregon. According to the…

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey and now Hurricane Irma, and with more than a dozen wildfires burning in Oregon, the importance of emergency…