Month: December 2017

For a truly meaningful gift this holiday season, the Oregon College Savings Plan is encouraging families and friends to contribute to a child’s…

The most ambitious and important agricultural survey of all is getting underway in Oregon and the rest of the 50 states as the 2017 Census of…

Volunteer Central Oregon announced that sign-ups are now open for the region’s 9th annual MLK Day of Service as part of the national holiday…

Increased access to viral suppression medication that makes a person living with HIV less infectious, and to medication that prevents infection in…

Bend is one step closer to a possible citywide vote in May on changes in city government, including a directly elected mayor and some councilors…

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) – Dozens of Symantec employees in the Springfield area have learned they will be laid off next month as the…

A new mixed-use development could be going into the former Ray’s Food Place on Bend’s Westside. The former supermarket building has been…

Governor Kate Brown has ordered all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff in honor of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day…

An attic fire in a southwest Bend home early Wednesday caused about $20,000 damage before it was put out by firefighters, officials said. Bend Fire…

(Update: Comments from Madras officials, residents, Redmond brewer) Madras wants to bring a brewery to town, and while many welcome such an arrival,…

(Update: Ex-jail worker arraigned; jail outlines changes to avoid such incidents) A former contract kitchen worker at the Deschutes County Jail,…

Happy Wednesday evening, everyone! Bitter cold, clear nights are in store for the High Desert moving forward. Lows will be in the single digits and…

Here are the results of Tuesday’s KTVZ.COM Poll, asking if you have had trouble recently finding an affordable place to rent in Central Oregon:…

Volunteers from the Bend Oregon Area Team are celebrating the collection of 7,300 gift-filled shoeboxes that will remind children around the world…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Ranchers in Idaho and Oregon have begun grazing their cattle again on some of the nearly 280,000 acres burned in wildfires…

THE DALLES, Ore. (AP) – Disability Rights Oregon has released a report alleging the regional juvenile jail in The Dalles skirts Oregon law and…

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s Materials Management program announced Wednesday it has awarded more than $600,000 in grant…

Sandy Visnack of Bend has been named the new executive director of the Bend Endurance Academy by the organization’s governing board. Visnack…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – New figures show Oregon once again has the third-worst high school graduation rate in the country. The…

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is accepting comments on a proposed rule change that would establish a permit to restore, maintain or…