Month: October 2017

Organizers raised more than $18,000 for Tour des Chutes programs that help Central Oregonians thrive through cancer at this year’s third-annual Press On: Moving Lives Through Cancer event, which was held Saturday, Sept. 23 at Atlas Cider Company in Bend. A Bend-based event established by physical therapists to spotlight the role movement and exercise can

The Deschutes National Forest has extended the closure in place for Rimrock Trailhead to allow for the completion of a tunnel under Cascade Lakes Highway and the paving of a path from Entrada Lodge to the Cascade Lakes Welcome Station. Rimrock Trailhead (formerly known as “Good Dog”) was originally scheduled to open on Saturday, October

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) – The Oregon State Marine Board is considering a plan that would no longer require people who rent commercial rafts and kayaks to carry Aquatic Invasive Species permits. The Mail Tribune reports while raft-rental companies still would be required to buy the same permits to outfit their fleets, their customers would not have

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A couple in Kentucky has won a lengthy battle over the right to adopt a 4-year-old girl from Klamath Falls. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Sunday that Laila Sloan’s Kentucky foster parents, James and Angela Sloan, are her biological aunt and uncle. Oregon welfare officials sent the child to live with them two years ago

Economic Development for Central Oregon hosted the 14th Annual Bend Venture Conference to a sold-out crowd at the Tower Theatre in downtown Bend. Over Thursday and Friday, 14 companies presented their ideas to over 600 attendees in hopes of gaining investments from prominent funds. Of those 14 finalists, eight companies walked away with funding totaling

TILLAMOOK, Ore. (AP) – Highway 101 through Tillamook has reopened after 5 inches of rain shut down part of the road and caused flooding that damaged cars and forced at least one business to close. KGW-TV reports that the Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office says the mountains got 10 inches of rain and the Wilson River rose

ALOHA, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say an Oregon sheriff’s deputy suffered a bite wound while trying to arrest a suspect. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says 24-year-old Erik Rodriguez-Reyes got into a confrontation Monday with deputies who responded to a complaint that he was assaulting his pregnant girlfriend at an apartment in Aloha. He allegedly bit two

CRESWELL, Ore. (AP) – A fire damaged a mill in Creswell Sunday night. The Register-Guard reports an office and warehouse at Creswell Forest Products caught fire, sending flames high into the night sky. The fire also torched a 40- to 50-foot evergreen tree, but large stacks of lumber remained unscathed. No one was in the building when

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – An assistant wrestling coach fired by Oregon State University has filed a federal lawsuit that contends he was wrongly let go. The lawsuit filed in Eugene says Kevin Roberts was falsely accused of allowing or participating in derogatory remarks made by members of the wrestling team toward one of their teammates. The former

St. Charles Health System is pleased to welcome Dr. Sanaz Askari, DO, and Shawn Degroot, president of Compliance Vitals, LLC, to its board of directors. Dr. Askari has been providing internal medicine care for hospitalized patients in Central Oregon since 2006. She joined Cascade Internal Medicine Specialists in February 2011 and enthusiastically embarked on her

Bend continues to make national lists of the best places to live and visit – two more just this month. MSN Money presented an analysis and ranking from 24/7 Wall Street of “America’s 50 Best Cities to Live” that placed Bend at No. 43. The brief article even links to a Zillow listing of Bend

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Darren Mattocks scored early in the second half to give the Portland Timbers a 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps on Sunday in their regular-season finale. Portland won the Western Conference title to earn a bye in the first round of the playoffs. The Timbers also won their second Cascadia Cup since

An 18-year-old woman from The Dalles was killed early Sunday when her car left Interstate 84, went into a ditch and crashed into a tree, Oregon State Police reported. OSP troopers were sent shortly before 6 a.m. to the reported single-vehicle crash on westbound I-84 near milepost 76, just west of the Rowena exit, said

Two crews will be working on the Cascade Natural Gas Bend Westside Pipeline Replacement Project this week, and both will affect traffic flow, officials said. The first crew will be working in the gravel alley between NW Florida Avenue and NW Georgia Avenue, at the intersection with NW Lava Road. They will be working west

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Nearly two decades after a woman was killed in Salem, lawyers for the man convicted of murdering her have asked a judge to allow DNA testing of crime-scene evidence. They say the tests could lead to the real killer and exonerate Jesse Johnson. But the judge says he must study whether he

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – State regulators have shuttered a Portland day care facility after a second baby died there in as many years, an unprecedented number of deaths at a single day care center for the state. Authorities have not said what caused the 10-month-old boy’s death earlier this month at Broadway Children’s Center in Portland.

(Update: victim’s mother sets up GoFundMe page) Two young men died and three other people were seriously injured early Saturday morning when their car left a rural road south of Prineville and flipped several times, throwing all of them to the ground, Crook County sheriff’s deputies said. None are believed to have been wearing seat

Members of the 1-82 Cavalry of the Oregon National Guard trained in Redmond over the weekend, getting more familiar with their new-era vehicle, called the Stryker. 1-82 Major Christopher Kerr said on their second training session Saturday that the Strykers are lightly armored and built for speed, agility and the ability to cross various types

MILWAUKEE (AP) – Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 17 of his career-high 44 points in the fourth quarter, and he gave Milwaukee the lead for good on a breakaway dunk with 11 seconds left in the Bucks’ 113-110 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Saturday night. With Portland leading 110-109, the Trail Blazers lost the ball and

ECHO, Oregon (AP) – An eastern Oregon city council has issued an apology after one of its members on Facebook used an anti-gay slur against a gay man and wrote he’d spit on the man’s grave when he died of AIDS. The East Oregonian reports (http://bit.ly/2iqykHs) that Echo City Councilor Lou Nakapalau made the post but