Month: January 2018

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio says changes will be made to the Veterans Affairs health care system in Roseburg after an investigation into allegations of mismanagement, misconduct and degraded patient care in the system. The Register-Guard reports DeFazio announced Thursday that some senior managers will be removed. DeFazio did not say which

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – Marie Gulich scored the last three points and Mikayla Pivec got a hand on a potential game-tying shot as No. 22 Oregon State defeated No. 18 Arizona State 57-54 in a Pac-12 showdown Friday night, handing the Sun Devils their first loss in six games. Gulich scored a game-high 20 points

Ten homeless men slept in warm beds Thursday night as Regeneration House opened their doors after relocating last year. The new shelter is located on Northwest Madras Highway, with much-needed space to house men who are homeless. Last year, the shelter had to find a new location because it sat on the site of the

It’s a nationwide problem that’s uprooting kids in Central Oregon from their schools, friends and communities. A shortage of foster parents is hitting rural areas hard. Cherie Ferguson from the Department of Human Services is responsible for finding and retaining foster parents in the tri-county area. She said Friday that Jefferson County is being hit

Here are the results of Thursday’s KTVZ.COM Poll, asking if you think Oregon should impose work requirements for Medicaid recipients: Yes – 67% (529 votes)No – 33% (259 votes)Total Votes: 788

President Trump’s reported remarks at a closed-door discussion of immigration with lawmakers were “offensive and unnecessary,” Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., told reporters during a visit to Bend’s Deschutes Brewery. He also criticized House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s recent remarks and added, “We all have to be careful about the words we choose.” “We all have

SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A spokesman for Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says Interior Secretary Zinke has agreed to consider exempting Oregon from the Trump administration’s offshore drilling plan Spokesman Bryan Hockaday says this happened after Brown spoke on the phone with Zinke on Friday at Brown’s request. Brown asked for the same consideration for the

The winter of 2016-17 was one for the record books in Central Oregon and much of the state. Multiple storms dropping two feet of snow at a time caught K-12 educators in the region off guard, causing numerous school cancellations and forcing administrators into snowy, uncharted territory. Friday marked one year since a winter storm

Good evening, Central Oregon! We’re going to remain dry tonight with partly cloudy skies. Throughout the evening temperatures won’t be as cold in the upper 30’s. Overnight they will fall around freezing for lows. This weekend will be beautiful with mild temperatures in the lower 50’s and clearer skies. Dry conditions will continue all weekend

In an effort provide for more reliable flows on the Deschutes River, the federal Bureau of Reclamation said Friday it has entered into an agreement on a southwest Bend canal-piping project with the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, the Central Oregon Irrigation District and other entities. The memorandum of agreement is part of the compliance

The city of Bend on Friday installed a memorial sign with a message — ‘Don’t Text and Drive’ — on Southeast Reed Market Road near Pettigrew Road, in the area where 16-year-old Forrest Cepeda was struck and killed by a texting driver in 2011. The city said it installed the sign “to honor Cepeda’s memory

Happy Friday morning, everyone! We’ll begin the day with some clouds moving in, but that won’t last long. Temperatures to begin the day will be in the 30s and lower 40s. Winds today will be out of the southwest around 15 miles per hour. A clearing trend is ahead for the afternoon with more sunshine

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A judge has reunited a Redmond family, despite state concerns that the parents are intellectually incapable of caring for their children. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that Deschutes County Judge Bethany Flint determined there wasn’t enough evidence to show Amy Fabbrini and Eric Ziegler couldn’t safely parent. Thursday’s decision about the couple’s 4-year-old

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – The estate of a 99-year-old man who died in a Junction City nursing home seeks $2.3 million in a negligence lawsuit against the facility. The lawsuit filed in Lane County says Esbert James Pickering fell out of bed and broke his hip two days after moving into Avamere Rehabilitation. It asserts

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – State environmental officials have fined the city of Corvallis for violating the state water quality standard for bacteria by discharging untreated sewage into the Willamette River. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality said Thursday it fined Corvallis $25,800 for the discharge of about 33 million gallons of untreated sewage and stormwater

We’ve seen wind and we’ve seen rain, but we’ve not seen much snow on the High Desert this winter. And a winter with little or no snow affects more than just skiers and snowboarders. No snow means companies that typically get paid to get rid of it are struggling. Landscaping businesses often spend the winters

Wildfire seasons are growing longer and more severe – but thanks to recent federal funding, local communities in Oregon are tackling the challenge head-on through forest restoration. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a $32 million nationwide investment for wildfire prevention projects on public and private lands, with $4.4 million going to local

A trio of widely used pesticides are threatening Northwest salmon and the orca that rely on them, even with these species on the brink of extinction, federal fisheries experts say. That’s according to a biological opinion from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fisheries office that the environmental law organization Earthjustice unveiled this week. The

Oregon Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined a group of colleagues representing coastal states Thursday to tell the Trump administration that they don’t want oil and gas drilling off their coasts, and are demanding the same respect for their states that was recently given to Florida, which was granted a special exemption by Interior

As another debt ceiling showdown approaches, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley and Virginia’s Senator Tim Kaine introduced legislation Thursday aimed at ending Congress’ abuse of the debt ceiling as a political hostage. The Protect our Citizens from Reckless Extortion of our Debt and Irresponsible Tactics (Protect our CREDIT) Act of 2018 would change how the debt